Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It is safe to say that, when the United States entered the war in 1917--and earlier, in 1915 and 1916--most people in this country conceived German militarism to be the enemy that we were fighting. No other conception could have given rise to the cry that we were...
"However inglorious the role of Leonard Kip Rhinelander in this suit at White Plains, it is his lawyers who cut the poorest figure in the case. For obviously this was an affair that ought to have been settled out of court. No matter what the outcome, there was nothing to...
"After finishing college, Trumbull devoted three years to study for the ministry: but the loss of an uncle at sea just, when Jonathan was about to accept his first call, and the needs of his father's growing mercantile business, changed his choice of profession and he became a farmer...
"He is over seventy years old, his entire life is devoted to affairs, which he loves with a passion, whether they be great or small: or, rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few...
7. The CRIMSON deplores the preponderance of space devoted to college football in the newspapers. The doings of professional football teams may, in the future, come so to fill the public eye as to remedy a large part of this evil. The custom of picking All-American teams is the...