Word: rant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course it is idle to rant about failures save where they may be redeemed. This apparent failure may be redeemed. Those men, leaders of the community, who have pledged so freely and yet so wisely their wealth to their nation by investing all they could in the liberty bonds, have raised a distinguished example. The less opulent men of New England, noted for their money canniness, may well follow. Surely in no wiser way may they invest their savings. Surely in no safer way may they make good their patriotic promises...
There is no time to argue concerning the defied and immemorial right of men to get drunk when they want. There is no time to rant about the freedom of the individual; nor to sentimentalize poetically upon Dionysus. We are not fighting philosophers, demagogues, or poets. We are fighting a nation which allows no waste...
...members of the University are invited to make use of the communication column of the CRIMSON for the expression of their opinions in regard to the coming Presidential election. This is not intended to make the CRIMSON the battlefield on which the opposing factions may hurl personal invectives and rant about preparedness or pacifism as the spirit may move them, but to give an opportunity of expressing themselves to those men who might no otherwise be heard from...
...report of H. S. Thompson '99, treasurer of the Union for the half-year ending February 28, 1911, is given below. The total loss in the running expenses is only $797.45 as compared with that of $2,884.11 for the corresponding period ending February 28, 1910. The restau- rant account, which a year ago disclosed a deficit of $1,660.52, now shows a net gain over the expense of $2,150.92. The report follows...