Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deficiency in the supply of our more elementary needs. The shortage of food, fuel, and transportation which came to a head this winter has been developing for years. Upon an 1880 system of agriculture and a 1900 system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands of an increasing population have been met by a draft on our reserve supplies and resort to temporary and makeshift means of raising production...
...restraint. Again, this redirection of the national energy necessarily involves more disarrangement of plans and change of occupation on the part of some than of others. They who were doing in time of peace things which are equally necessary in time of war will suffer no loss, and may even gain. They who were doing things which are unnecessary for the winning of the war must make a complete change. They may feel that this is unfair and resent it. But there seems to be no help for it if we are really...
...Even in the imminent presence of the enemy, and while serving with their whole strength, Oxford and Cambridge can keep alive their old spirit. So much the more ought we, who have not been shaken so seriously, to remember and revere the academic traditions of the University...
...United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions, but that even at this late date they do not seem fully to realize the seriousness of the situation. --Boston Herald...
...Even if weather conditions are favorable this afternoon none of the remaining events of the mid-winter track carnival will take place today. An attempt will be made to complete the program tomorrow afternoon, beginning at 3.30, but it may be necessary to leave a part of the schedule over till Wednesday. At any rate, the 1921 interdormitory teams and the class relay teams will run tomorrow on the board track, and the broad-jump will be held in the cage. This means that there is still an opportunity for men who have not yet done so to take...