Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after the time the men are obliged to live in barracks. All men who are financially able to do so will be obliged to pay for their board and will be urged to contribute a sum equal to the cost of their equipment. We must not, however, turn away good men for lack of the necessary funds to pay for their support while at the camp...
...minute, as the shock to his heart had been too great. Everything possible was done for him, and they allowed me to spend the night with him. He did not suffer at all, and talked rationally about the work of the section, and was much interested in the good news from France that just reached me. He lived until the next morning, and practically died urging me to go to bed so I could work as usual...
...know of no experience that can be of more benefit to a college man than a good hard summer's work on a farm, and especially the big wheat ranches of the West...
...clear point is that "cash" wheat has been pretty steadily higher than the nearest "future" since last fall--indicating that buying by those who want the actual wheat, to use or to store away, has been the proximate cause of the rise. Back of this, in the judgment of good students of the market, lies buying by the Governments of England and France, and frantic buying by housewives, enormous in the aggregate, which has forced the millers to unprecedented buying of cash wheat. Back of this are many factors, not the least the alarms spread by the Government...
...whiskey and beer during the war. For the rest, I am inclined to the view that the Government should move cautiously, and always in co-operation with the leaders in the grain and flour trade, who alone have the knowledge required to make any Governmental action do more good than harm. It is not as easy to handle the food supply of America as it was to distribute a known supply of food to the Belgians--and that was no easy problem