Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to contribute; the cause itself, one of the most heart-compelling appeals of all time, makes a refusal impossible. To most of us the idea of starvation, lack of clothing, and lack of shelter are so far from actual experience that we can scarcely appreciate what they mean. Yet it is a grim fact that scores of Armenian children are dying daily from lack of shelter and nourishment; while one hundred and ten thousand others during the past year have been saved only by the efforts of the Near East Relief. If these thousands are to be given another...
...students. Unfortunately, he goes only for four years and is expected at the end of that time to know his profession. With most other professions a student spends the same four years as an undergraduate, and three or four more in a professional school. This does not mean, however, that a cadet at West Point divides the four years between undergraduate and graduate work. It means more nearly that he gets little or no graduate work, and begins only after receiving his commission, through his own ambition or the guidance of older officers and officers schools to gain a professional...
...mean to imply by this that competitions are intended primarily for social purposes. The work is both hard and exacting and he who undertakes it merely to enjoy himself is bound to be disappointed in the results. Opportunities for forming friendships are nonetheless offered--but they are a "by-product" rather than the chief purpose of the competitions. To the Freshman or Sophomore who comes out for the CRIMSON competitions which begin this evening we can say two things: first, he will find he has a worthwhile job on his hands; and second, he will probably discover in the process...
...mean that every question that comes up should be decided summarily on the spur of the moment. Weigh your evidence well, decide carefully and deliberately, but when you have made up your mind, then...
...United States, for example, cannot expect France to lay down its arms unless it has some guarantee against the to her very real threat of Germany. In other words, there must be some binding agreement among the nations which will make aggression on the part of any single nation mean the opposition to it of the entire force of the civilized world. Call such an agreement what you will, object that it is virtually "Article X"; it is nevertheless a fundamental necessity for permanent peace...