Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic is what General Pershing is doing behind the fighting lines--to wit, making the best possible use of every possible moment. One thing is certain, no officer can ever be too well trained. That he should not be too little trained, the school now opened at Devens gives promising new assurance. --Boston Transcript...
...totals for the first day of the University Red Cross drive were available for publication this morning. Indications however, from the committee chairmen made it certain that large sums had been collected, even though all members of the committees had not reported the results of their canvassing...
...another way the limitations upon luxuries must be tempered by a consideration of possible effects upon our industrial organization. To prohibit suddenly the manufacture of certain articles would be to throw numbers of men out of work, to render families dependent, and to demoralize the whole nation. The process must be a gradual one which will recognize that society cannot be reorganized...
...addition to this opportunity, there are positions waiting for men at the Texas Steamship Company of Bath, Me., the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, and the L. H. Shattuck Shipbuilding Company. All of these plants are now engaged in building certain quotas of Wooden ships as a part of the new emergency fleet of the merchant marine...
Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...