Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of a captain for the hockey team is one of those events which keeps our judgment clear. We do not know whether the hockey team will exist next winter; we do not know whether many of the men on the team will be here to play, or whether their new captain will be here to lead them. Yet we must plan as though our present preparation for war is but temporary, to be succeeded by the accustomed round of healthier and more happy events...
President Wilson, the leader of this great nation, has stated in clear, manly terms the only honorable stand that this country can take. We congratulate him upon his firm declaration and pledge our heartiest support to following principles so well expressed by him. "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith...
...summary of the treaties and international law bearing on the case, Professor Hart points out that it is clear that any provision therein made or proposed was for the purpose of giving "to innocent owners of vessels and cargoes which happen to be caught in what becomes an enemy's port an opportunity to save their ships and lading." Neither the treaties nor the law, however, foresaw nor took account of the peculiar circumstances of the German ships in the ports of the United States...
...vessels should clear our ports they would be captured by the British as soon as they were outside the three-mile limit, or they would be sunk by their commanders to escape capture. Any vessel which by chance slipped through the blockade would without doubt attempt to supply submarines or other warships, and to co-operate with them in attacks on American ships and coasts...
Except for this purely physical shortcoming, the tone of the chorus is of excellent quality. The intonation, even in treacherous passages, is so accurate as to seem remarkable. The attacks are notably prompt and clear, even by professional standards, and the too-often neglected endings are no less exact than the attacks. The singing of this chorus achieves apparently quite as a matter of course, two of the less easily attainable goals of all choruses, large or small, amateur or professional--smoothness and clearness...