Word: even
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Newell Boathouse will not be open until spring because of the fuel shortage. When the squad reports the rowing tank, however, will be opened, even though the remainder of the building is not heated. Several sets of rowing machines have recently been transferred from Newell to the Locker Building...
...they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed, "and this is reached by the men who treat the discovery of our shortcomings as a reason for relaxing our efforts...
Although this answer is addressed to the Allies, yet it seems to be designed for "home consumption." In spite of censorship and exaggerated or even ficticious reports, the rumors of internal unrest in the Central Powers are not unfounded. Mutinies among sailors as well as Socialist discontent apparently exist, even though their importance may be overestimated. No better plea could be used to quell these than that Germany has agreed to discuss the enemy's proposals, but the enemy has persisted in fighting. What is ostensibly for external peace may be in reality for internal...
Such a measure is the logical remedy for our present confusion. Instead of allowing coal to become mixed up with railroads and the manufacture of necessary articles to be checked thereby, this board will see to it that industry works in harmony with transportation. Even though a regulator may have managed very efficiently some branch of our war activities, yet we cannot with any reason expect him also to have adjusted this to the plans of all the other controllers. That is a task which requires a supreme council. Only by establishing one can we obtain that unity of effort...
...their cases, if they will teach others a lesson, will have been worth while. The average student has to have facts knocked into his head; most of us merely shrug our shoulders at these two incidents and thank our stars we are not the unfortunate ones. We are even apt to idolize the men who have been discharged as martyrs to the cause of loafing...