Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...example, not one man in ten ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter...
...became interested in railroads and became president of the Union Pacific. From 1882 until 1907, with a break of only one year, Mr. Adams was an Overseer of the University. In 1895 he was chosen president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which position he has held ever since...
...before the Faculty but must content itself with sending to it a written petition, there is always considerable difficulty in obtaining a hearing for a complaint. The oral exams. have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three years, became Seniors, the orals had grown so odious and unfair that the recent movement to reform them was unusually aggresive...
...settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind who would deny the existence of an ever-growing instrument of progress and civilization in the form of an international public opinion strong enough to settle all disputes, except those between nations armed to the teeth "in the hope of peace"--and in the expectation...
...When the present war is over the belligerents will be in a state of exhaustion from which they cannot recover in less than a generation at least. Men and women throughout the entire civilized world will have endured and seen suffering such as no former war has produced. If ever there was a time ripe for federations of nations, diminutions of national armament, international police forces, increased control of international relations, and so on, certainly now is that time. As the one great nation which will not be exhausted and embittered by the combat, the United States has a most...