Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the President's signature to a bill which has long been before Congress, the daylight-saving plan has at last become a reality. A full hour is added to the days of the summer months which is certain to be a step toward increased war efficiency...
With the approach of the long vacation and the uncertainty of military plans for the near future, the question of utilizing the otherwise idle summer months of the country's best advantage must necessarily become pertinent in the mind of every undergraduate. Of the great number of men who will not enlist in any military organization, either because of physical disability or because of the necessity of earning money during the summer, as many as possible must engage in some activity which will be of direct service to the nation...
...terror, yet it is extremely probable that reprisals, undertaken on a people tired and keyed up, have been effective in weakening their morale and increasing their desire for peace. To the English, air raids are a matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained such an efficient defence. The attacks have been delivered in the great factory region of the Rhine, where the men and women, working all day at top speed in clanging manufactories, cannot relish the noise and confusion...
...long as there is any evidence of success, these raids ought to be kept up and increased in power. No claim of humanity can now be considered; the Germans have lost their chance for gentle treatment. The only way to fight fire is with fire...
Students possess a wealth of personal effects, many of which have long been discarded. Every man has a shelf or drawer full of things which he no longer uses. Old clothing accumulates rapidly. It is psychologically natural, however, for men to part slowly with possessions once acquired, and to declare they have nothing to give, upon being questioned by a collector. There seems to be nothing more difficult than the emptying of an overcrowded drawer into the waiting hands of charity...