Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip. In the end, however, the travel by this means will settle down to those who have urgent business and are willing to pay the extra price for speed. Last year the Santa Fe handled an average of 12,400 passengers per day on its trains. It might lose several hundred of these to airplanes and not be affected seriously. The increased travel by rail due to the growth of the country would probably make up for any loss such as this. The airplane certainly will not affect us in the same degree that the automobile has done...
...football games today are really easy ones to predict, but with this bump still on my head I have to be pretty careful about how much I think. Of course I'll get the winners right but I might miss up a point or so on one or two of the scores, so you better haul right out of those pools and wait until next week. By the way, I wish every one would stop writing me for the scores early in the week. I've got an agreement with most of the coaches not to give them out before...
...said goodbye to the outside world and had entered a new sphere, as strange to me as might have been Mars, a new sphere in which I must learn a new language, a new outlook, a new method of living, and most of all, learn the meaning of discipline. Nor was I alone when I entered. Over three hundred and sixty others had come into the Academy at the same time. Each of us had this adjustment to make, and most, of us made it successfully...
...realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts of the infant Republic. West Point was fortified by New York farmers, garrisoned, and held until the end of the Revolution...
...West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish...