Word: safe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outcome of the engagement was in doubt until the eighth inning, when the upperclassmen pushed across four runs. Evans and Fischer were safe on two fielders' choices. Hallowell walked, filling the bases. Gross was hit by the pitcher, forcing in the first score, and a second was made when McCouch was passed. Gammack's timely single scored Hallowell and Gross with the final runs of the game. Triples by J. T. Baldwin '21 and T. H. Gammack '20, and a double by H. P. King '21, were the only extrabase hits of the contest...
...first of these is the supercession of the famous War Council of Versailles by the single commander, General Foch. The general is well known to students of military questions through courses he has given at the French War College. It is safe to say that the appointment of a supreme commander is a step in the right direction; the next thing will be to equip him with a general staff capable of handling the combined armies...
...There are only three possible sources from which money may be raised for the purchase of bonds: first, from the actual cash on hand in banks or private places of safe-keeping; second, from the future savings of the nation; and finally, through the extension of credit...
...universities, where they reflect a spirit for no value to their country. One is the student, about to offer his services, who regards the little remaining time which he must spend at college as a period in which he need exert no effort. The other is the student who, safe within his college walls, finds life but a daily round of routine and petty pleasure. He reads morning headlines as of passing concern. The evolutions of the day are a kind of motion picture, seen from the comfortable chair of self-complacency. Both these men are equally self-centered; both...
...gone on have been as big and vigorous as ever. He has had the comforts that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last summer he did it, and it didn't hurt...