Word: intact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant movement of the latter years of the war. An Allied gain of equal importance would have been heralded as a great victory. There is, therefore, no discounting the fact that the Allies have suffered a serious set-back. Upon the other side, however, the Allied line has remained intact, retreating only before superior numbers and inflicting tremendous losses upon the enemy. If this war, even after the Russian collapse, is a war of attrition, the Allies have gained rather than lost. The importance the spring drive of 1918 depends on the present state of German manpower...
...members, will be held during the period. When the normal life of the College is resumed after the War a production will be made under the direction of one or more of the present officers and new officers and members elected immediately afterwards. Thus the organization will be kept intact...
...large expenditure necessary for the project is considered justifiable because it is felt that a school so well established as that at the University should be kept intact. All the available University buildings have already been taken over by the Radio School, but the space occupied is altogether inadequate for the needs...
...school year 1917-18 opens with 292 students, a little more than one-third of normal registration. Perhaps we may be proud of this registration, reflecting that after offering to the service of the country substantially every able-bodied man in the School, maintaining entrance requirements intact and rejecting for deficiency in scholarship the normal percentage of those examined last year, the School is still going forward with a select student body amply sufficient to maintain its best traditions...
...effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year of war might...