Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the monstrous fate which overhangs the hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony...
From our own point of view, the cancellation of all war debts may be the easiest if not the only, means of preserving our present status as an exporting nation. The European countries can scarcely pay their debts to us in anything but goods, and such an eventuality would very likely result in our own mills and factories being forced into idleness while we live on the articles that are sent from abroad. Those goods must be brought in, if the debt is to be paid--there is no alternative. Thus, commercial payment of these war debts may well result...
...easiest way, then, is to enter with proper reservations the league that is. At present, it may be improperly based and crudely put together, but it contains elements which are good. Furthermore the practical difficulties of negotiating for a new association are great. The course to be followed should be not so much a matter of principle between a new organization and the existing one with reservations as of the conditions which will be met with in the pursuance of either course. Practical friends of the League, however, should not despair but should be disposed to accept either plan according...