Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...others will fight in the seasons nigh...
...upshot of this war is inconclusive the whole world will be preparing for another. During any temporary truce men of science in all countries will devote much of their thought to making engines more destructive and more deadly for the next struggle which will be well nigh a war of extermination...
...glad that the investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes well nigh impossible where narrow men lies in wait to pull down others who are serving, because these others who are serving, because theses others hold different views. The men managing the various branches of the War Department must be the best obtainable. The Senate Committee will look...
...order by each of the forty-five men who will make up the University quota at Yaphank or some mysterious Federal camp. If unexpected pleasures are the sweetest, the announcement this morning contains one hundred per cent. saccharine matter. But out with those books. The days are more than nigh...
...high treason. But the Special Committee of Thirty-Three, charged with the investigation of the accused, has rejected this proposal and suggested to the Chamber that he be impeached. That such a widespread scandal could exist without some foundation seems improbable, but on the other hand it seems well nigh impossible that in any of the great countries today a member of the Cabinet should be an active traitor. It is characteristic of France that no attempt is made to conceal the offence, but instead an honest effort is on foot, in the interest of fair play, to discover...