Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Employment Office. We may assume that those students not engaged in direct preparation for combatant service will devote their summer vacation to those activities indirectly connected with the prosecution of the war. Some few have opportunities for useful service secured to them through their personal connections. The remainder should lose no time in communicating their wants and capabilities to the Employment Secretary. Individual seeking for a chance to render service in war employment is a tire-some task and likely to place one in the end in an unimportant or disagreeable position. Backed by the reputation and investigations...
With her back to the sea, Holland's outlook before superior German strength is indeed dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing...
Harvard has long prided itself on an institution probably unique in American colleges: voluntary chapel. In practically every other institution in the country attendance at morning prayers is compulsory. There is a grave possibility at the present time, however, that chapel here will have to lose its voluntary character or cease to exist, if the interest of the undergraduates in its future does not increase materially. The figures of the Phillips Brooks House Chapel Committee report show that the daily attendance this year has been as low as 30, with a general average since December 1 of about 45. These...
...England did after said experience with that catch phrase," said Captain Louis Keene, C. E. F., commandant of the Dartmouth Battalion, and author of the British war novel "Crumps," when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently. "If the country relies upon each person doing his bit, we will lose the war. It is necessary for every man, woman and child in the Allied nations to do his and her utmost--and then some, if we are to be victorious...
...engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might. To plant the flowers and the joys of life again we must not lose from our hands those blue birds of happiness--poetry, painting, and philosophy. Michigan Daily...