Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stood and whether their statics proved satisfactory from a mechanical point of view. This year only 0.97 per cent. of the Freshmen were grouped in Class A as having a good mechanical use of the body; 14.8 per cent. fell in Class B as being fairly good in this respect; 49.3 per cent. were put in Class C as being less satisfactory; 34.8 per cent. were placed in Class D; all the members of this class were considered to use their bodies very badly...
...this country at the time of the signing of the armistice. Then it was not unusual to see on the cover page of a single magazine or grouped together on a single platform, such grotesque combinations as a Russian anti-Czarist who had learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong...
...shades of departed centuries! Are we to allow this "willful group of men" to undermine our self-respect by forcing us to the yeast-cake and the vanilla extract? If the President had declared the emergency law cancelled, think of what tonight would be. Think of what next morning would be. Truly, the war was a terrible war to have changed the world so much...
...over three years I have known Mr. Pond, and had the utmost respect for his views and ideals. But when he states that the action of the House of Representatives in refusing to seat Victor L. Berger drives him to direct action, which is nothing less than extreme socialism, I can only feel that his sense of extreme precision in justice has o'erleapt itself...
...yearling harriers were much encouraged by the report that H. M. Mahon Unc., whose status in respect to class has been under discussion, may return to the squad and run tomorrow. D. F. O'Connell, who will run for the first time since his injury on October 8, has been rounding into form this week and should place well in the lead...