Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once more the long arm of Mars has reached to Massachusetts, and again the great mass of the people of the Bay State have felt his pinch. The immediate cause this time is the recent order of Mr. Storrow, which decrees that after next Monday all activities of the Commonwealth shall cease daily at 10 P. M., and that in all other ways possible, coal and energy created by coal be economized...
...shoe begins to pinch, certain factors should be held in mind. France has been unbelieveably bled, and is probably continuing to fight chiefly because of our entrance into the war. But until next spring aid from the United States is more likely to be potential than effective, and therefore much depends upon our attitude and our actions until that time. If France can rely upon us to put ourselves unreservedly into the conflict at the earliest possible moment she will continue to fight...
...have the assurance that man may not live by bread alone; and on diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...lacks fully enough men for every service save chaplains. The experience of the warring nations has been that there are always enough chaplains. Their further experience has been that chaplains consume about as much canned marmalade and bully beef as those whose tastes are presumably more bloodthirsty. In a pinch, when face to face with necessity, a man can pray, or consign his soul to eternity without the aid of a trained intermediary...
...increase is now desirable in work of high scholarly rank among men unurged by the pinch of necessity...