Word: foe
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...believe. The cover is flamboyant with breezy confidence; scripture unschooled by higher criticism is called to witness in our behalf at the outset, and the tail-piece is a convincing vision of prophecy fulfilled,--a fulfillment heralded by many a timely dig in the intervening pages at our "dearest foe." Apart from the local color cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would...
...Governing Boards in favor of athletics at Harvard, and there is no reason why friendship should not continue as it has hitherto. We have the same ideals, the same aims, and the same ambitions that you have, as Professor Lowell indicated in his recent lecture at Yale. The greatest foe to our friendship is the newspaper reporter, and we at Yale have learned not to believe any of the stories published in certain Boston papers...
Atlantic Monthly--"The Child in the Garden," by Henry Van Dyke h.'95; "The Foe of Compromise," by W. G. Brown '91; "April Rain in the Woods," by F. S. Palmer '87; "The Honorable Points of Ignorance," by S. M. Crothers h.'99; "Sarah Blake Shaw," by R. W. Gilder h.'90; "Phyllis' Isle," by J. H. Morse '96; "Horace E. Scudder," by A. V. G. Allen h.'86; "The Social Unrest," by J. H. Gray...
...include Porto Rico within the customs boundary of the United States means, moreover, the inflowing of American capital to develop the latent possibilities of the island. Uncertainty, always a foe to industrial development, now prevails. Once make it known that the interests of Porto Rico are to be the interests of the United States, that Porto Rico is a part of us, and American capital will flow to the island. But until that time comes the rehabilitation of Porto Rico along American lines is impossible. When Americans can feel that their investments in Porto Rico are to be regarded...