Word: junkerism
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...patrie and has seen German signatures in the waste basket "because of necessity". "If a man fails to back his check would you bankers trust him for another?" Undoubtedly not; yet some still say the French are imperialistic because they mistrust Germany; and that the pessimistic warning of another Junker monarchy is absurd. The answer is "we have seen it and we know". America cannot say the same...
...largest creditor, will unquestionably be asked to cancel a part of its claims, even though our statesmen and financiers are sorely divided on the subject. Amid the maze of arguments two reasons stand out dominantly. For kindly souls, there is the consideration that a people once ruthless under the junker policy have paid a heavy penalty of suffering in their turn and under a new government need not be further ground down. But the more practical and, for business men, the more appealing argument, is that it may be better to reduce our just claims and then receive payment...
...best amateur records to date for the above distances are: 150 yards, 15 sec., Phillips, (Eng.); 15 1-8 sec., Brooks of Yale; 180 yards, 18 1-5 sec., Junker, (Eng.); 200 yards, 20 1-8 sec., Myers, New York. The best English amateur record for 220 yards was made by Phillips, London, 1878, is the same as Baker's American record. The best professional record in the 220, is 21 4-5 sec. Hutchens...
...imitate the care with which the Cambridge and Oxford men prepare and train for these athletic contests. At the Cambridge University Sports, on March 9, Mr. E. L. Lucas, Jesus, succeeded in running 100 yards in 10 secs., thus beating the previous English amateur best on record held by Junker by one-fifth of a second, and placing the English and American amateur records at the same figure. On the same occasion, Mr. R. H. Macauley, King's, cleared 5 ft. 9 in. in the Running High Jump, which is better, by three-quarters of an inch, than the record...
...Amateur Championships, London, April 15. - 4-mile bicycle race, R. R. MacKinnon, 14 min. 9 2/5 sec.; mile-run, A. F. Hills, Oxford, 4 min. 28 4/5 sec.; half-mile run, H. Whateley, Oxford, and L. Knowles, Cambridge, dead heat in 2 min. 3 3/5 sec.; 100-yards, L. Junker, L. A. C., 10 1/5 sec.; quarter-mile, J. Shearman, L. A. C., 52 4/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 1/5 sec.; seven-mile walk, H. Venn, L. A. C., 52 min. 25 sec., first mile in 6.35; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Cambridge...