Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...without genuine regret that Americans read of his resignation, as throughout the war he has shown consummate ability and statesmanlike moderation in all his public acts, whether as finance minister, foreign secretary, or Premier. The grand old man of France, as his friends are wont to call him, has given much to his country in return for scant gratitude. For over a quarter of a century he has been active in French politics, but on each of the three occasions when he was made prime minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals...
...would be an incomplete compliment to call the Illustrated's photographers Arguses. They have more than the giant's quota of one hundred eyes when it is incumbent on them to take a photograph. They have a nice journalistic sense in picking out the meat of the thing to be photographed; they see everything and see it discriminately. Thus do the pictures in "Harvard's most progressive paper" become timely...
...Hereafter, commencing this date, cadet captains will call at Military Headquarters daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 12 noon and take from the several order boxes assigned them such orders as may be therein distributed for their use, and will sign for them...
...close of a meeting yesterday of Major Henry Lee Higginson, Cardinal O'Connell, and Alfred L. Aiken, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, Cardinal O'Connell issued a statement of which the following is an extract: "The times are extraordinary and call for extraordinary methods. Our soldiers and sailors will need everything we can do for them and it would be a crime for anyone of us to be indifferent to the tremendous consequences which would result to this country in the unthinkable event of our failure to do our full duty at this critical time...
...Tucker '18 will issue a call for candidates for the position of assistant manager of the Debating team within the next few weeks...