Word: reading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...here we have five men in charge of each one. This winter the heating of our Y. M. C. A. huts alone will cost $700,000, but they will furnish the only warm spot for the men in the trenches, the only dry, lighted spot where the soldier can read or write, and where everyone is welcome. Above all the Y. M. C. A. is the greatest single influence for safe-guarding the morals of our troops...
...have shown on more than one occasion. The interpretation which certain of our Presidents have placed upon the Monroe doctrine, and our only too evident fondness for buying up available islands lying off the South American coast have been construed in hostile light. It is always easy to read selfishness, greed, and underhandedness into every ordinary international act; it should take but one sublimely unselfish action to dispel such suspicions against the government of that state...
...short despatch from Paris announces the retirement from the French cabinet of Monsieur Ribot, after repeated attacks on his policy by the Socialists. It is not without genuine regret that Americans read of his resignation, as throughout the war he has shown consummate ability and statesmanlike moderation in all his public acts, whether as finance minister, foreign secretary, or Premier. The grand old man of France, as his friends are wont to call him, has given much to his country in return for scant gratitude. For over a quarter of a century he has been active in French politics...
Paragraph 2, memorandum of October 16, 1917, amended to read as follows...
...winks and nudges of elbows have gone the round of the University as its members have glanced at the papers and read the culogies of Barre, that noble town which has given its all to buy Liberty Bonds...