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Word: dares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...striving today, as he has always striven, to advance what he considers to be the best interests of the American people. Therefore for an undergraduate magazine to embark upon an editorial policy so shamelessly bigoted and blindly partisan, dropping as it does to extremes which only George Harvey dare exceed is not exactly well-considered. Frankly, we do not see how the members of the Advocate Board could ever have deliberately agreed on so questionable a policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WORD TO THE WISE. | 5/19/1919 | See Source »

...should not lay itself open to criticism by countenancing unnecessary disparagement of any college activity. The University has perhaps been unsuccessful in other fields besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating trials a sadder but wiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whose Diggeth a Pit Shall Fall Therein' | 5/13/1919 | See Source »

...worthy, would dare lay claim to such a solemn honor. All those who do, take upon themselves the holy vow to live "honoris causa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORIS CAUSA. | 1/29/1919 | See Source »

Each day I meet some of my old pals, and our meeting always ends up with the same question: "When will it end?" We do not dare guess, but I think that we have them on the run now, and perhaps it will end before we realize it can now. My best wishes to you, and I would give a lot to be able to go up to Hollis 15 tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF JULY ALLIED DRIVE DESCRIBED BY LETTERS FROM AMBULANCE CAPTAIN AND INFANTRY LIEUTENANT | 9/27/1918 | See Source »

...mere accident that has made all the pro-German organs in the press clamor against the men who dare point out our shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/28/1918 | See Source »

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