Word: nears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubt that it is good financing to pay for a war, or for anything else in the world, out of current revenues as nearly as possible in distinction from bonded indebtednesses. Debt is a millstone around the neck of a nation. Fortunate are the people who pay as they go. To keep as near that ideal as possible should be the desideratum of all statesmanship. Our enemies, who commonly belittle our activities, should at least know that, stupendous as has been our war preparation, we are paying an unprecedented fraction of it out of current taxation. Boston Herald
...family to lay down his life for England, enlisted in 1915 immediately after receiving his degree, and was once wounded in his first year of service. Since then he has distinguished himself at Ypres and later at Cambral, where he commanded King's Company in the attack near Fontaine Notre Dame...
...Field May 10. The event will be the first on the University program, the only others being the triangular meet with Yale and Princeton and the I. C. A. A. A. A. contests at Philadelphia. It is likely, however, that games will be arranged with service teams in the near future. The M. I. T. team, which last year took both the New England intercollegiate track and cross-country championships, is said to be unusually strong this year also...
...Lunches will be provided by the Supply Officer and will be distributed to the Regiment during the preparatory halt on Newbury Street, probably near Exeter Street...
...have their copies of the Manual for the Commanders of Infantry Platoons bound with staff covers for 60 cents each. Men may leave their copies either at the CRIMSON Building or at military headquarters today and secure the bound copies from the McNamee Company, at 32 Brattle street, Cambridge, near the Harvard Square postoffice, on Thursday. Books may be handed in as late as Wednesday, but in that case their owners will not be able to get them until Saturday...