Word: far
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organization is strictly non-partizan in so far as politics are concerned, but it expects to take a leading role in the reconstruction program of the country. Eligibility for membership does not depend on length of service or the capacity in which the service was performed. Officers of every rank are admitted on the same footing and have equal voice in the conduct of the affairs of the society...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre there is to be held a meeting that will be far from one of mourning, except for the part that the United States has been forced to play in all this mess. The purpose of the meeting is to crystallize public opinion in Cambridge, and to make the people who have been blocking the Treaty see that it is the will of the country that they forget their petty squabbles and peanut politics and come to an agreement that will bring the Treaty into operation as quickly as possible. On Monday, the Senate reconvenes...
...that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...
...Thus far this year the library has loaned 450 text-books for undergraduate courses and 76 law books; 132 men have availed themselves of this privilege by taking out these books. E. L. Pierson '21, in charge of the library, has computed that these loans represent an average saving of $4.75 for those who have made use of the opportunity...
...operation with Professor Kapteyn of Holland, the Observatory is also making an exhaustive study of the magnitude and position of stars far too small to be seen by the naked eye. There are nearly 100,000,000 such stars, but by selecting typical areas it is possible to generalize accurately about the entire number...