Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be taught to avoid alcohol and tobacco. Having grown proficient at this, he is ready for a more detailed study. He is soon to be taught that cigarettes discolor the fingers and that whiskey makes noses read, which subject suggests laboratory work for that year. In due course he reaches the advanced courses to be given in the study of alcohol in relation to the city, the state, and the nation...
...popularity is due to his sea-roving expeditions through the allied blockades during the war when he camouflaged an armed vessel as a Norwegian fishing schooner with the Count, himself, taking the part of the captain. Thus disguised the ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world...
...trust you will print this letter or in some other way correct your original but erroneous statement, thus placing the credit where it is due...
...privilege of successful genius to demand its due and the desire of the populace to accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well...
...Due to this change it has been decided in give all men in the College or Engineering School another opportunity to try out for the two teams which will face Carleton and the University of Porto Rico. The question which will be argued in the debate with the Porto Ricans corresponds very nearly to that in the other debate. It reads: "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in the Carribean without prior declaration...