Word: deter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady application, and to persistent...
...still in the balance. President Lowell is in Washington today conferring with the members of the War College about the establishment of an additional training camp in Cambridge, and a definite statement can be expected soon. Whatever the decision may be, it ought not to deter any students from fulfilling the imperative duties of the next two weeks...
There is skating, good skating, on the Charles. Yet it is curiously true that comparatively few of us know anything about it. It is perhaps lamentable that a walk of five or ten minutes should deter us from using the river, but it does. The condition obtains except with greater intensity, as in the case of our tennis courts. If some afternoon during the tennis season you will walk to the courts on Jarvis field, and then to those on Soldiers Field, and compare the numbers using each, you will appreciate the inhibitive force of distance. I am confident that...
...application in writing to Professor Theodore Lyman '97, Jefforson Laboratory. Such cases will be considered in order of their relative standing in the Regiment; i.e., the men who have attended regularly the drills and other formations will be given the preference, all things considered; but this should not deter any man from making an application, as his case will receive careful consideration. C. CORDIER. Captain U. S. Army...
...fulfillment of international obligations, has been the maintenance of an effective sanction. In early times many treaties aimed to obtain a sanction by calling upon deity to witness the contract, which was then called sacred. Often, a few years later, this sanction was not found sufficient to deter rulers from action contrary to the treaty, if policy seemed to make such action advantageous. The League to Enforce Peace aims to provide such sanction as will prevent hostilities, until resort has been had to a judicial tribunal or a council of conciliation, as a it has been found that mere recommendation...