Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has already pointed out why it believes the Republican party best qualified to perform the service of leadership during the next four years; perhaps a more poignant way of impressing this point of view is to consider the question from the opposite side. In other words, would the country be better off under four more years of Democratic control...
...efficiency basis. In the first place, there is no reason for the complete disassociation of the diplomatic and consular sides of the foreign service. It would be useful for the service and useful to the individual if a secretary should be enabled for a time at least, to perform the duties of consul and vice versa. Often times a poor secretary would be a good consul and quite as often a poor consul might prove an excellent secretary. The pending plan proposes the possibility of an exchange, at the pleasure of the Secretary of State, between the two sides...
...this program goes through--and I am extremely hopeful that it will-- our foreign service will be still more worth while for the college graduate than it is today. I know of no more useful function that a college graduate can perform than that involved in promoting the introduction of business methods into our international relationships...
President Lowell then drew attention to the singular pertinence of this moral to the life of a forcible man in the "ordinary currents of our time." During the war there was the comfort of having a plain duty to perform, with no moral questions to decide. The great object, never lost from sight, was winning the victory; a man's duty his courses prescribed, was to obey orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes...
...superabundance of material and we can ill afford to lose any of those whom we are counting on for next November. The coaches can be relied upon to give the last ounce that they possess, but they do not play the game and should not be expected to perform miracles...