Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no doubt that Berlin has counted repeatedly and with due weight those two billions. It has been vaguely computed that war has cost Germany fourteen billions. She has learned the value of capital. She will learn the value of our capital, well invested in the implements of war. She will learn no less that two billions are but the pledge of a hundred times that amount, which we would pay, if necessary, for victory...
...ways of national politics are amusing, and the antics of kinglets and kinglings more droll than those of Chaplin, primarily, no doubt, because they take themselves so very seriously. It is noteworthy now that Germany is spiritually shedding large tears over this ruthlessness to "a brave little people." Germany has had so much to do with brave little peoples in the past three years that she may pass as a judge. Her sympathies, it must be admitted, have been for Finland, Ireland, and Greece. She has seen with no overburdening woe the desolation by brand and steel of Serbia...
...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...
...investing a part of the surplus of the class fund in the Liberty Loan was unanimous in favor of the proposed plan, as far as it was possible to ascertain last night. The result of the balloting at the Wakefield range is not ket known, but there is little doubt but that the votes there will all fall in the same direction...
...foolish doubt is now dispelled. There were some who previously declared that the Administration is uncordial to college men. Of course such absurd prejudices have long ago disappeared; now the accusation of them has also disappeared...