Word: plan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Abraham, conversing with the angel on the plan of Mamre, secured the promise that Sodom would be saved for the sake of ten righteous. The ten righteous were not found, and Sodom perished. We must expect that we--if we are Sodom, and the cowardly are righteous--will also perish, unsaved by our ten or so righteous. We may bear our doom gladly, if we first get rid or the righteous...
Athletics at Yale may not be resumed next fall or before the close of the war. This conclusion is the result of a canvass of members of the Yale Athletic Council whose opinion is that too many athletes have left college or plan to do so before fall. A success of athletics under the conditions imposed by the war is virtually impossible, it is said...
...four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
Coincident with the campaign being organized in the University for subscriptions to the Liberty Bond, similar plans are being launched at Yale. A Liberty War Loan Committee has been appointed and the week of June 4th set aside as a special period for canvassing. To increase the opportunities of the Yale Faculty for participation in the loan, a plan has been arranged by which payments may be deducted from salaries...
Fortunately those who control England's war policy have too much human wisdom to attempt a course in plan and achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only...