Word: planking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis. If we have arrived at that state where all the voters of this country think alike, then away with all parties...
Though many of us have growled and grumbled at the new five-day vacation imposed on the national industries by Mr. Garfield, there was one plank in his platform which pleased the undergraduate. Monday seemed well on the way to join Sunday on the credit page of our lives. Two consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion...
...party, to satisfy the dissenting republicans who aimed primarily at the abolition of corruption, but who still had remained faithful in their belief in statehood, put in a plank to that effect. The nationalists also received recognition, for the party pledged itself to independence under the protectorate of the United States, identical to the present status of Cuba; and, thirdly, it declared itself for home rule somewhat similar to that which Canada enjoys. It is clear that this platform is an expression of the most conflicting interests. However, the Unionist Party carried the people with it and controlled absolutely...
...remarks, inaccurate because founded on observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more...
...Fraser-Campbell '11, F. W. Hill '12, W. A. Perkins '12, E. Streeter '14, H. A. von Wedelstaedt '12, R. G. Williams '11; guitars--O. R. Diehl '12, V. Morris '12, P. S. Pennoyer '13, G. Whitman '12; violins--J. A. Bryan '14, L. I. Grinnell '12, P. Ver Plank '11; 'cello--J. G. Gilkey...