Word: primes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sparsely populated coast lines. The difficulty of patrolling these shores with the modest naval equipment of many of these republics is quite obvious; and the danger which may be presented by the use of certain strategic points along the South Atlantic and Caribbean shores are of course of prime importance in any campaign against roving commerce raiders and submarines...
...with military aviators will fall on the college undergraduate," said Mr. Amory. "If the United States in the event of war organizes an army of 1,000,000 men at least 10,000 military aviators will be required to supplement it properly. Aviators must be young men in the prime of life and in the best of health, and, furthermore, the successful military aviator must have the equivalent of a college education or at least be on a level intellectually with the average college undergraduate." He pointed out that the French and German aviators at the beginning...
Several large business concerns in the West have made patient and intelligent trials with college men in business, and the results as a whole speak well for the college students. Of course, individuality is the prime factor in any man's success or failure, whether he has education or lacks it, but on anything like an even chance and opportunity it was generally found that the college boy caught on more quickly and progressed faster than the boy lacking college education and training. He grasped problems and situations more readily and saw their possibilities more thoroughly, because he had become...
...governor of Maine; another called him "greatest baseball twirler living," also "stellar performer on Jack Combe's team"; Fernald was named governor of this state, and the chief executive of Massachusetts was stated as Call. Several said that Grey was premier of England and that Asquith was prime minister, rather overcrowding the office, as it were...
Pennsylvania comes to Cambridge in prime condition after three of its hardest games. During the past ten days the team has defeated Cornell, 5 to 3, in a hotly contested fifteen-inning fracas, lowned Yale, 3 to 0, but lost to the Tigers, 7 to 2, after a twelve-inning battle. In each of these games the Philadelphia aggregation displayed unusual ability in all departments of the game. Berry, McNichol and Bennis have been sharing the Red and Blue slugging honors so far this season, and the team as a whole has shown good hitting ability when runs were needed...