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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...often we have wondered why Germany, who exercised so vast a sway in the marts and the cloisters of the world before the war, should have cast aside the method of gradual but sure triumph for the ruthless one of gun and sword...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Averted Evil. | 12/7/1917 | See Source »

...latest method to raise money for war purposes interests those who have no bank account and those who have plenty of ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THRIFT STAMPS | 12/7/1917 | See Source »

...most famous thoroughfare again after such a sudden transformation by elimination of the mining-camp excavations, the derricks and littered side-walks? Years have now elapsed since the city's streets have been in anything like normal condition, although originally we were assured that the "cut-and-cover" method of excavation would leave scarcely a scar on their fair surface. We have grown accustomed to chaos, to climbing up temporary stairways, winding through improvised galleries, or hurdling over a zone of desolation like that in France. If the change proposed be made too suddenly, average New Yorkers will need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/22/1917 | See Source »

...antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must be kept busy or he falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love and internationalism. The Y. M. C. A. is our only method of reaching such men; its wonderful effect has already been demonstrated by the results obtained among the Russian armies in Turkestan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE Y. M. C. A. ABROAD. | 11/16/1917 | See Source »

...valuable. The reviewer of "Christine" is, we think, quite right in assuming the letters therein to be fictitious. He does not mention the interesting theory that Owen Wister is the real author. Yet there are obvious similarities between "Christine" and "The Pentecost of Calamity" in point of style and method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Current Advocate Average | 11/10/1917 | See Source »

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