Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wood-cutting during the Christmas vacation. This work will not only be of great value to the men in that they receive a good salary in addition to board and lodging, and will learn some of the fundamentals of the lumbering business, but it will also help in a certain measure to reduce the fuel shortage in Massachusetts. The place where the students will work will be announced this afternoon...
...four nights, and so everyone took it for granted that they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing...
...most part these men have received adequate treatment in the hospitals which are maintained by the sanitary department of the army, the Russian Red Cross, and the Zempsvos Union. While in many ways Russia is capable of taking care of her wounded we found a great lack of certain supplies, namely, antitoxines, certain drugs, surgical instruments, microscopes, and laboratory supplies of all kinds. Russia also needs ambulances and an improved system of sanitation...
...today to raise a large sum of money from the city of Cambridge for the relief of the Halifax sufferers, and every opportunity will be given to members of the University for voluntary contributions. No canvass of the dormitories will be made, however, and no attempt to reach a certain maximum sum is contemplated...
...taken to task by a writer who does not bother to draw on his gloves. He has waded right in and dealt his blow with a bare fist. One thing is certain--he has his opinions and these are to be regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people...