Word: final
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University fencing team secured second place in the finals of the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship held at the Hotel Astor in New York City Saturday afternoon and evening. First place was won by the United States Naval Academy, with 27 bouts won and nine lost. The University team finished a close second, as its final score was 26 victories and only 10 defeats. Third, fourth and fifth places were won by Columbia, Yale and Pennsylvania respectively...
...Final and definite arrangements have just been completed for the Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service to be established at Squantum this summer. This school, which will open about June 1 and will be conducted by one of the subcommittees of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, is intended to supply the navy with a carefully selected body of young men sufficiently trained and skilled to pass any tests for provisional enrolment in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps or Class V of the United States Naval Reserve Force...
Early this morning the House of Representatives brought to a close one of the greatest sessions of its history by passing the war resolution which the Senate accepted day before yesterday. The final roll call showed 373 in favor of the measure and 50 opposed. By this action the United States has entered the great European war on the side of the Allies, determined to carry the struggle to a successful termination by every means at its disposal...
...Senate and definitely commit the nation to conflict, and the greater part of the long discussion was taken up by the short speeches of various members who supported the measure, but wished to put themselves on record as reluctantly accepting war as the only course of honor. The one final step which will make the resolution complete is the signature of President Wilson, which will be affixed early this morning...
...nation enters on the sixth great war of its history. Five times before, as dependent colonies, as a small republic, as a great Power, it has raised the standard of battle. Each time it was goaded to humiliation before it was willing to enter on the final and most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right...