Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Peddler's Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...
...claimed, for example, that an orchestra of greater experience and ability could be made up from undergraduates outside of the Pierian, than from those in it. Moreover, social qualifications have so restricted the Society in the choice of its conductors, that it has had to resort to graduates and even to professionals for its leaders. The charge of professionalism is further advanced on account of the employment of Symphony men in the annual concerts. Nor can the general work of the Society be given a very high place, either in the variety of their programmes, or in the quality...
...settle disputes, but to keep them settled. Perhaps it may be called, by way of ellipsis, public opinion. Even war has its rules. If force is to decide the matter, why not fight it out, by fair means or foul, till the weaker side cries for mercy? If resort to arms is the only ultimate solution for international problems, why hesitate to appeal thereto? Why, for instance, do all the nations of Europe seek to justify themselves before each other and the world by claiming to be waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel...
...immensely serviceable and helpful in the Republic. Such students, if our Government only has the with to utilize existing institutions and develop well-established practices, could be prepared before graduation to qualify as military officers competent to train in time of war our volunteer armies, which in a last resort form the military bulwark of the Republic...
...second line of defence. This line is then formed by the centre and one of the backs. Two backs wide apart about ten yards further to the rear form the second line of the secondary defence on either team. The quarterback, still further in the rear constitutes the last resort in the defensive machinery of each eleven. It is obvious that the object of this seemingly large number of defensive lines is to guard against the single plays which result in long gains or touchdowns...