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...respect will. Even as little a nation as Nicaragua didn't accept a mandate without bloodshed and protests. How can Mexico? You tell us that "war may be an amusing national industry, but it is rarely a profitable or a healthy one.' And then you propose to send us headlong into a Mexican and thus into a Pan-American...
...that Great Britain is just one-half of one percent dry, and afraid of becoming more so. While we ah, sad to state!--are one one-half of one percent wet. But judging by the election returns, our thirst is as that of the herd of porkers who "rushed headlong into...
...have undertaken costly offensives to relieve the pressure on her frontier provinces. To declare that Russia is now ready to cast the burden of the war on their shoulders will create a most painful impression both in London and Paris. Next he criticizes the British fleet for not rushing headlong into the Baltic, now that the Germans are operating there, knowing well the utter impossibility of such an undertaking; incidentally the British might well ask what the Russan fleet is doing at the present moment...
...furlong race was more fiercely contested. It was the last race of the day, and by securing first and second Harvard might have tied the score, or, by winning all three places might have won. Tied for second place, W. B. Adams '13 and R. Tower '15, hurled themselves headlong toward the tape after Cornell, Adams going head over heels and almost into the board fence...
...midnight the gaslights in the hallways are extinguished. Whether this be the survival of a past age of early hours or the result of an economical administration is immaterial. Aside from the inconvenience incident to groping one's way through pitch darkness, these inky corridors involve the risk of headlong tumbles down staircases, and, in case of fire, absolute danger. To fully appreciate the significance of these conditions, it is necessary to attempt to make one's way after midnight from the top floor of Weld, Matthews, or Thayer to the basement...