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...records of the Boston Police force are admitted as evidence, Diogenes would certainly have been at home in the Stadium saturday. While numberous thousands gathered at the battleground, the enforcers of the law metaphorically rolled up their sleeves, preparing for a brisk business...
Although air raids in the past have proved less harmful than the locust plague proved to the Egyptians; air--and not water or land--will in all probability be the battleground of the future. And with this in mind, John Bull has suggested a disarmament move which may be of greater importance in the keeping of the peace than both the Washington and Hague conferences together...
...casual observer, a whole society of strange and opposite creatures, thrown together by chance or nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy and intricate first novel...
...republic." Every American wants the Irish question settled speedily and permanently, settled to the satisfaction of both the Irish and the English, but the good will of the two great English speaking nations must not be jeopardized. Upon Anglo-American friendship and unity of purpose, forged on a common battleground, rests the hope of the world for peace and progress. The Anglo-American friendship of a century must not be imperiled by Congressional politics. To pass the Mason Bill would not make Ireland an independent republic, but it might mean war with England...
...John R. Mott, LL.D., who through his work as Secretary of the Foreign Department of the Young Men's Christian Association has probably more intimate knowledge of the whole European battleground than any other man in the country, will speak to all members of the University in New Lecture Hall next Thursday evening at 6.45 o'clock. Since the outbreak of the war Dr. Mott has made four trips abroad and on three of these he visited every one of the warring nations, this last visit being to the Allied Nations only. In Germany he was permitted by the Imperial...