Word: falling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certainly there can be small hope for peace in the future if the Allies of today, fresh from fighting side by side amidst the most cordial relations, fall out over an affair of so comparatively little magnitude. If the Great Powers become disaffected now for such a reason, what will happen in fifty years, when vital economic interests may be at stake...
...chief arguments in favor of the destruction of the ships is that their distribution would increase taxation. We fall to see how this is true. Taxes would be needed only for the upkeep of the ships, a negligible amount in comparison to those required for building and maintaining new ones. And even admitting that the League of Nations will be adopted, each country must keep increasing its naval armament until the "Executive Council shall formulate plans for effecting . . . . . reduction." Most people will agree that the proposed reduction is intended to be gradual, caused by discontinuing to build more ships rather...
Spring football practice of three weeks' duration has been decided upon by the management of the University team. A meeting of men who are interested in football will be held the first Monday after vacation, and all who intend to play next fall, whether they can come out for spring football or not, will be expected to attend...
...University eleven has not met the Tufts team since the fall of 1916, when Tufts won by a 7 to 3 score. It was feared that no game would be arranged for the coming season, because Tufts did not appear on the tentative schedule which was published a short time...
...American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...