Word: allay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Treasury Department made no attempt to allay this highly colored credulity. In fact, it organized a nice little publicity campaign. Pictures were taken of the Secretary surrounded by very busy clerks and great piles of telegrams and letters. Interviews were freely granted to the press. The theory of publicity seemed to be that if everybody was jollied into believing that everybody was doing it, everybody would...
...rendered by law liable to draft. That is a proportion of one in twenty. If anyone, having reached within the last ten years that age which presumes to manhood, is fearful of undertaking those duties which he, as a courageous and honorable citizen, owes his nation, he may allay his fears for the time. The chances are nineteen to one against unwilling individuals being taken. Such over-whelming odds do not even partake of the adventure which hinges to a sporting chance...
...mass meeting in Sanders Theatre tonight is intended for all who are in the least interested in the movement for individual military fitness. All who have hesitated until now from uncertainty or indifference should be there to justify their indifference, or to allay their uncertainty. Those who have already enrolled should be there to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the work and training they will undergo. Over 800 men expressed themselves by ballot in favor of a plan of universal military training. Surely they did not mean to exclude themselves. The new plan of instruction is the means whereby they...
...reasons given by Dr. Lee why Harvard College did not postpone opening in spite of infantile paralysis should allay the fears of people who have become unduly alarmed over the spread of the disease. Dr. Lee points out that only two per cent, of cases occur in persons over ten years of age, and that the danger to grown persons is very slight. Of course proper attention should be given to good habits of eating, sleeping and exercise, but these general precautions are considered sufficient to protect the hundreds of young men who come together in class rooms and dormitories...
...hard hitting on the part of both teams, Harvard defeated Catholic University on Soldiers Field yesterday by the score of 11 to 7. The University used three pitchers and the visitors two, all of whom were hit freely with the exception of Trayers who was sent in to allay the onslaught of the University team in the eighth inning...