Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...executive committee also decided to back the Red Book financially this year to the full extent of the class resources. Although the subscription price of the Red Book has been raised this year, it is expected that the publication will not be self-supporting this year because of increased expenses...
...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 are provincials...
Each of the manifold schemes for the pacification of the world proposed by liberal statesmen applies the theory of national self-determination. This principle, in short, provides that every racial or linguistic group possessing a sense of national unity should freely choose the alternative of amalgamating itself in some larger state, of becoming an autonomous fragment of some larger state, or of assuming the status and privileges of sovereign independence. But while it is comparatively easy to take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian...
...many entertainments now planned for the 16 military cantonments in the United States must be self-supporting. They must be of the same calibre as the bright, snappy shows the men are accustomed to seeing. The admission charges must be small. So Smileage Books were devised, the coupons of which are good at any paid entertainment in the camps under the management of the Commission on Training Camp Activities. Thus the friends of the soldier may send him theatre tickets which may be used in the Liberty Theatre and Liberty Entertainments at his camp.--SMILEAGE NEWS...
...colonies in the darkest hour trusted to the integrity of Washington. It was his devotion which sustained the Continental Army at Valley Forge and Morristown, the public confidence in his uprightness as trustee of the presidential powers which made possible the ratification of the Constitution. Coupled with self-sacrificing loyalty, Washington displayed a statesmanlike insight. His policy toward warring Europe won for the United States the respect of all foreign nations. In his administration he was not afraid to associate with him in government the ablest men of the nation, regardless of personal or party favoritism...