Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where are we coming to? Divisionals are here to stay; the tutorial system has a firm foothold in some departments, is stepping into others, and will eventually become an integral part of the college's educational machinery. Marks must go; Phi Beta Kappa, according to its present standards, cannot last; entrance requirements must be altered so as to take into greater consideration the character of applicants. All things are tending towards a more honest and less ostentatious form of education. The ability to acquire--and use-- knowledge...
...League of Nations under which Australia is given control of all former German possessions lying south of the equator adds to our responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense of the American western coast...
Thus the question of Pan-Germanism, while not submitted to an official plebiscite, was, nevertheless, practically decided so far as Austria is concerned; the Pan-German leaders failed to gain a foothold in the elections. Had they won, they would have taken their victory as carte blanche approval of the Austrian people. But they have lost, and so decisively as to render any official action on the question--even of a plebiscite--unnecessary and highly improbable...
...treaty plank as it now stands is a disappointment. Its strategic value may be great, but even greater would have been the advantages of a "mild reservationist" stand which would have given the opposing party little foothold from which to raise the League as a campaign issue. It would seem that Elihu Root has said nothing at all as only that keen legal mind could have said...
...time the Eagles thought they had a permanent foothold on the lead, the Crimson came storming back...