Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games football is the one which does not call for the selection of an All-American, an All-Eastern, or an All-Any-oldkind of team. It is the one game where the individual counts the least. You have logic and figures upon which to base the selection of an All-American track team or an All-American baseball team, but there is no settled logic and there is no scheme of mathematics upon which you may base the selection of an All-American football team or an All-Any-section team...
There can likewise be no doubt of the fact that the members of the Batteries under command of Colonel Danford in New Haven and in Tobyhanna last summer did their work so creditably that the history of the organization and of the way Yale responded to the President's call, will long be remembered as a glowing chapter of Yale history...
...transmitting this letter, we wish to call your attention to the fact that the letter was prepared before it was publicly known that our government had protested to Germany. Now that such action has been taken, the force of the document will lie: first, in the evidence of the extraordinary unanimity of demand for, and approval of, this action in the bodies here represented; and second, in the urgent proposal that the action of our government be extended in the direction of consolidating as far as possible the opinion of all neutral nations in common and emphatic representations...
...pitiable and ridiculous figure of the love-sick slavey. There must be growing up a professional caste of those who from mother and daughter take this role. It is perhaps why such passable ability of that of Miss Bryton is in this case wasted. Also the hero (we call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American terseness and nervous directness in speech. It was a silly exaggeration but the pea dulum has swung...
...some wealthy citizens of San Francisco a hundred undergraduates of Leland Stanford have volunteered for a half-year's service in the war zone. It is not merely the number of the volunteers which is remarkable, but the spirit they have shown in heeding what is a universal call...