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...graders began to take up the offensive. "What get us peeved," they complained, "is the continual use of such foul expressions as 'denote, delimit, maximizing, deem, feel,' and above all the inevitable 'pros outweigh the cons, therefore such should be done.' Sometimes the boys get confused, and talk about Silton when they mean Babcock, or keep 'ringing up sales on the cashier,' for ten pages...
...students have been required to sign affidavits which prescribe the conditions of enrollment. One of these conditions is that men shall enlist in the Army or Navy air corps, as they choose, at the end of their training, and another clause is that if the Army should deem it necessary, these men would enlist in the reserve...
...shall be fighting a world revolution abroad only thereby to bring about here the same revolution. I am in favor of the revolution here, but deem the war way of bringing it about regrettable," says a book by the potential defender of democracy. It is difficult to imagine how the Army overlooked the patriotic sentiments of "America's No. 1 Fascist." The F.B.I. may spot him if the Army and public opinion doesn...
Students who do this will be subject to immediate call, but will be allowed to continue their medical preparation until such a time as the authorities deem sufficient for them to acquire all necessary knowledge...
...around Jefferson. He saw revolutionists everywhere, undermining, raising popular passions, obstructing, subverting and-he feared-eventually revolutionizing the Government. He was as opposed as Herbert Hoover to embargoes and quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed nations than to starve them." He was double-damned as the spokesman of property-although, like Herbert Hoover, his main aim was to resist ideas which he believed would eventually turn the republic into a tyranny...