Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eliminating many diseases through the use of medicine and in other ways. Cures and remedies have been found for almost all the common diseases, and new ways of preventing their causes have been discovered, yet the real contagion among mankind is spread through weak minds, feeble mental influences, and bad environments. Drunkenness, tuberculosis, and almost all forms of vice are the result of this mental disease. Although the ideal Christian condition without disease is naturally the doctor's enemy, as without it he would not have his work, yet that fact is the very glory of his profession, for although...
...curious mixture of English, French, and other foreign nationalities, congregating together at times in great fleets of fishing schooners. These vessels are extremely serviceable and well adapted to their many uses; and, as big gales are very rare, the loss of life at sea is very small. When bad storms do occur at rare intervals, however, whole fleets are sometimes lost, as was the case several years ago when twenty-six schooners were wrecked...
...behind splendid interference. There was one Yale man to stop him, and he dove through the interference, missing Smith by a good margin. Then in attempting to turn in, Smith slipped, tripped over the prostrate Yale tackler and fell forward having covered about 15 yards. He had a bad fall but was not injured...
...only way to stop crime is not to treat each case separately, but to remove its fundamental cause. Criminals as a rule are not really bad, but are victims of their environment for which they are not responsible. The men who are responsible for this environment, usually the rich, seemingly respectable men, who steal millions where the common thief steals a dollar, are the real enemies of the country's welfare...
...strongest machines in years and aware of the fact that a victory over Yale will give it a clear title to the championship. The Yale authorities realize this and are putting unusual emphasis on the preparations for Princeton. Yet no matter how good or how bad Princeton elevens happen to be by hearsay, there is each year the usual high grade football to be seen at the Yale-Princeton game. So far fortune has favored the New Jersey team, against Harvard and especially against Dartmouth, where an acknowledged fluke gave Princeton the victory over what was seen...