Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days of the Revolution a Frenchman came to America to help the cause of liberty. Lafayette, with his well-trained troops, did a great deal in teaching the soldiers of Washington and the great commander himself the latest methods of warfare...
...purpose of the new body is to deal forehandedly with problems of war-time distribution, and special attention will be given to methods which will enable commercial houses to release employees the Government may need without dislocating business. The board purposes to gather the best experience of American and foreign business in this respect, and make it available for all business of this country, so that recruiting and military service may go on with the least possible friction and damage to business. The members of the board will work without pay, and at least one of them will spend...
...Joan the Woman," there is a great deal that could be said about it, but any comment, whether of praise or blame, can with difficulty be expressed moderately. We might begin by saying that we have but little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly...
Unquestionably college papers will bear a great deal of improvement. After a careful survey of the field, no intelligent reader will take exception to the Transcript's charges. But the remedy suggested involves grave dangers for it infers a misconception of the purpose of undergraduate publications...
...York City, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 16 to 18. The purpose of the Conference is to assist college students who may be considering their choice of a career to weigh the claims and opportunities of the Christian ministry as a life work. Men of experience will deal frankly with the difficulties and the possibilities of the ministry, both home and foreign, and students attending the conference will have opportunity for personal interviews with the speakers...