Word: findings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Contrast this with the condition of mechanics who are giving equally of their best to win this war. They are not given even decent conditions under which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care...
...good thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit of the Allies is the natural rebound after the surmounting of a crisis. Only that "rebound" hardly describes the state of feeling. Without quite being aware how it happened, we find ourselves turning to the morning's headlines with an air of comparative indifference, prepared for the ordinary "local engagements" and "improvements of positions," where a week ago we snatched at the morning paper prepared for the worst. In this country, we have undoubtedly slipped into this tranquil stage behind...
...morning setting-up drill next week under the direction of Captain Kendall is very fortunate for members of the R. O. T. C. and particularly for those taking the special examinations. The irregular hours of these tests and the added work they will require will make it difficult to find time for one's usual amount of exercise. Half an hour of setting-up drill under the supervision of an expert officer will more than make up for this lack...
...still receive applications for these camps. The Military Office should not fail to verify this news immediately and enroll any additional men who may want to go. There is already a long list of "alternates" filed at Headquarters, and many who did not enroll before April 28 may now find it possible to join. Whatever may have been the reasons for their holding back last week, no difficulties should now be allowed to get in the way of their receiving this invaluable training under direct Government supervision...