Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton series was tied on May 24, when a long triple by J. L. Knowles '19 in the seventh inning scored three runs, winning what looked like certain defeat. Hardell and Felton, who pitched for the University, were supported by almost air-tight fielding...
...impossible to set any certain date for the mustering out of the limited foreign service men, it is doubtful whether college students will be able to get back to their respective school before the opening of the next academic year...
...prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution was ever more thoroughly put out of business by the introduction of machinery than the trade of there men will be fetor the prohibition enactment...
Prohibition is defended on moral grounds, and to a certain degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement...
...United States should make up their sacrifice because her sacrifice was not fully accepted seems unworthy of their recent noble action. A debt is a debt and no amount of difference between the debtor and his creditor can wipe away the obligation until the debt is paid. Now for certain Europeans to infer that the Allies' years of fighting before the United States entered the war should be ample pay for the loans which we made them, not only is an alteration of the obligation of contract but shows a disappointing lack of appreciation of the service which America rendered...