Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
After years of "shirtsleeve diplomacy" and ambassadorial mediocrity, such improvements as are indicated by the exporters must make a strong appeal to the reason of every college man and every American who holds at heart the prestige of his country among the nations of the world...
...squash racquets. A ladder tournament will be instituted among the members of each list in such a form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list. In the first ten any man can challenge the player next above him. Thus a continual competition results and a consequent instability of the rank lists...
...Lloyd T. Brown, and he has kindly continued supervision of it. The method of rating is as follows. The individual's feet are carefully examined and he is questioned as to possible previous trouble with his feet. We have discarded the former and now exploded idea that a man's feet can be judged purely on the basis as to whether the arch is high, low, or flat. We are concerned with ascertaining whether the individual uses his feet in a satisfactory mechanical fashion, and whether he has had previous trouble with his feet. The individual is then scrutinized from...
...teach the ex-service man and to give him the benefit of a university education if he is worthy of it, is the aim of the war-work council of the Y. M. C. A. Its extensive program for education and training of the soldiers in Europe was halted by the sudden coming of the armistice and the immediate demobilization of the army...