Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Several times reports have been published that Mahan would not appear in the lineup of the Marines. All these reports, however, have been emphatically denied, and it is certain that he will lead his men against the sailors. The Marine eleven will be greatly strengthened by the addition, after the Pennsylvania Cornell encounter Thanksgiving Day, of Howard Berry, star back on the Pennsylvania team, and the world's pentathlon champion, and of Bell, quarterback on the same eleven...
...often happens that when suddenly called upon we rise to situations seemingly beyond our capabilities. In attempting big things there is a certain momentum coincident with the attempt which makes us get there. Today the R. O. T. C. is to be reviewed by the University Military Committee, after a period of training less than two months. On this committee are some of the country's keenelt military critics, men who will be the first to pick flaws in such a body as the R. O. T. C. We feel sure that they will realize the newness of the Corps...
...Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery of our troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer men and guns from another portion of the front. The stand taken by the press...
...these connections increase and multiply we should come indeed to an end of that traditional antipathy between town and gown, once so keen in a certain New England collegiate community that when one of the dormitories of the college caught fire the citizens sat out on a neighboring hillside and cheered for its burning. Boston Transcript...
...William Hodge is something like a college football team. Dartmouth, for instance, always has a certain following in Boston, whether it has a 'crack or a cracked football eleven. So with William. He has his following, reaching as far down as Saco, Me., doubtless, and whether he has a good or a poor play, his following will turn out to see him triumph over the villains and kiss the prettiest girl in the show. The out-of-town trade may miss the kiss in catching the late train home, for it's the last thing on the program; but that...