Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Casualties. "One worker (an ex-service man) who happens to work close to the main aisle leading to the factory hospital, said that, for the same length of time, he saw more wounded men carried through on stretcher-carts than he saw at the front in France...
...Blues planned to seize not Lanai, but Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could...
...general opinion of its rightfulness, and a general condemnation of its violation. All men sometimes do, and a few men often do what they know to be wrong; but even so they usually try to justify to themselves, or at least to palliate, their sins. In the main men conduct themselves, both in public and private life, in accordance with their moral opinions, or the opinions of those they respect, or the opinions prevalent among the people with whom they mix. If so right opinions are of supreme importance, and the duty of holding right opinions is one of paramount...
...main trouble with football is that it has yielded to the spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this...
...time we have discussed the Honor System, pointing out what we considered some of the flaws in the way in which it was working out in actual practice, raising for general discussion the question of whether it was worth retaining or whether it might better be discarded. In the main, the many abuses or misconstructions of the Honor System have prejudiced us against it, but we remain perfectly open minded on the matter, believing that thorough discussion of the problem is one of the best means for reaching a healthy solution. Several times, also, we have taken occasion to point...