Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good as cash and can readily be turned into cash. Besides, if one will save the interest one will have more dollars to spend later on than now. This, together with the fact that each dollar will purchase more then than now, makes it to the individual's advantage to postpone...
...fight this afternoon with a young French officer and managed to stay on his tail most of the time. He wasn't so good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till...
...desires. Given any bit of information from abroad, a casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable gain. A glance at the map, however, shows the importance of these events to be just the reverse. In editorials and in the presentation...
...believe in optimism and in an encouragement of the nation in its present cause. But we maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility...
...Sections in Topography will meet at Holden Chapel promptly at 2.30 P. M. on the days assigned them. Each man is directed to provide himself with a 4-H lead pencil, a good eraser and a large-headed...