Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must be said, however, that there is at least an element of the miraculous in the University's escape forth more serious loss of the precious documents and historical papers which had been stored in the building. According to all casual opinion it must seem an inexcusable negligence which ever hazarded these records to the keeping of so old a building, quite without any system of fireproofing. At least they might have been kept in protected vaults. Boston Transcript...
...course we have heard more about the British sub-commanders, but until this latest drive upon Cambrai, mention of General Byng had been quite casual. He is now on the way to hero worship and we shall presently be deluged with details as to what he eats, how he behaved in school and who his favorite authors...
...dramatic, in both diplomatic and military fields of the war, is so constant and absorbing, that the casual American tends to overlook the vital changes that are slowly and surely taking place in the relations between North and South America. The friendly spirit which has intermittently characterized our Latin American policy has been overshadowed by the tactlessness which we have shown on more than one occasion. The interpretation which certain of our Presidents have placed upon the Monroe doctrine, and our only too evident fondness for buying up available islands lying off the South American coast have been construed...
...efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former preparedness movements is out-lined. It comes as an interesting bit of history to the casual reader...
...current Illustrated bears on its very attractive cover the words "Auto-Show Number." How far it is an auto-show number is not for the casual reviewer to examine, in fact it might as well have been called the "Preparedness Number." But this militant emphasis should not be decided on the score of militating against the supposed purpose of the number or because of bringing forward the question which so agitates the pacifists, who (heaven be praised) form but a restless minority at Harvard. Aside from all such considerations the fact remains that this issue of the Illustrated...