Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that time the representatives of the different colleges that accept the invitation to attend the conference will watch the University Corps in action in an exercise at Fresh Pond. They will then dine together as guests of the Military Office, and in the evening will confer as to the best method of coordinating the summer training at the various colleges so as to get the best results...
...skilled enough to be officers, but who have seen fit to shirk the heavy responsibilities of the officers' post in order to join up as a non-com, are likely to be classed with the others who have not wanted to give their property and themselves at their best for success in battle...
...must be apparent to all. The Government has chosen bonds as the method of raising the necessary funds. We have therefore the obligations and the machinery for meeting it before us. There remains only a consideration of the conditions which the college man must face in order to best serve his country...
...only $3,000,000,000 and oversubscriptions," instead of the $10,000,000,000 which we had expected to borrow. Another factor contributing to the same result is the underestimate of the income and excess profit taxes. We supposed that each would yield about $1,200,000,000. The best present estimate is that the total of the two taxes will be from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 greater than that. Hence we do not have to borrow so much money as we thought...
...have no supplies to pay for. When we do not build ships up to schedule we are saving the expense of building them. All this is quite axiomatic. But only in part does it account for the improved treasury showing. Mr. McAdoo and his associates undoubtedly thought it best to impress their fellow-countrymen with the seriousness of the situation by very ample estimates; as it turned out, too ample. And all these figures include, of course, our loans to the allies, which are, theoretically, an investment whatever we may think of them as security...