Word: obey
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Unless specially announced, the football practice from now on will be absolutely secret. No one, not even track men in track clothes, will be allowed on the field during practice. Coach Haughton desires that everyone obey this request in every particular. FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Rogers, Houston, l.e. r.e., Whitney, Blanchard Hooper, l.t. r.t., Goddard, Davis L. Withington, l.g. r.g., O'Hare P. Withington, Perkins, c. c., Morris Fisher, Stow, W. K. Blodgett, r.g. l.g., Knapp, Barber Fish, r.t. l.t., Coburn G. G. Browne, L. D. Smith, r.e. l.e., Paine O'Flaherty, Galatti, q.b. q.b., Johnson Frothingham, Pierce, l.h.b. r.h.b...
...passed into history, but the great lesson should always be with us; it taught men how to command, and what is more difficult--how to obey. It taught patriotism and the appreciation of liberty, not unbridled license, but that liberty which recognizes obedience. It taught the earth that the American flag is not just a piece of bunting which can be bought at any time for a song, but that it is the emblem of dignity and power of a great Republic, which can never be insulted but millions will spring to its defence...
...brother Americans, because they are true men. We admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...
...York, and in 1905-06 by his honesty and courage procured the punishment of the guilty officers of the great insurance companies. As Governor of New York he has worked quietly and bravely, not setting the people against the corporations or the corporations against the people, but making both obey the same laws...
...Avenel divides the history of labor and its relation to the State into three periods, the servitude period, the free period, and the despotic period, the last of which is yet to come. But wages obey no laws prescribed by legislatures; they are governed solely by public opinion. State laws regarding labor are obeyed only so long as they coincide with natural laws...