Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...
...Union for American Neutrality feels that the misrepresentations of it which are now going the rounds entitle it to state its position fully. This is no time for bickerings or bad blood. The R. O. T. C. and the Union should seek to work together, for both are seeking to serve the country. No opposition to the R. O. T. C. is implied by the published platform of the Union, to which I subscribed. I am now suggesting, on my own responsibility, how the R. O. T. C. needs the Union...
...army is just like a football team; it will be good or bad according as the team knows signals and automatically carries those signals out when the occasion presents itself. The Provisional Battalion will make it easier for men to know the signals and respond to them, in the event of a training camp here; and in any event, it will be beneficial in making Princeton men better prepared...
...bad, but stage productions after long runs, like most old maids, need rejuvenation. Their bill-boarded success of so many months deserves our attention only when their managers realize that nothing can stand still; a play must go either forward or backward. So "The Blue Paradise" comes to Ye Wilbur Theatre crowing over its Broadway success, which was undoubtedly merited-one could see that from the number of missed opportunities-but evidently no renovating has taken place since the initial performance...
There is nothing so bad for a country as war and what follows it. We learned that lesson in the Civil War. The enemy got ahead of us there. Do not let us repeat the mistake...