Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...daylight-saving" bill which was signed by President Wilson on the 19th of this month, all clocks throughout the country will be advanced one hour at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. The law will remain in effect until the last Sunday in October, when time-pieces will be set back to their present schedule...
...Vladivostok, for at this port vast amounts of munitions and other war necessities which were intended for Russia have been accumulating. In all probability the Japs will do no more than push a comparatively short distance into Siberia, possibly to a point just north of Manchuria, and there set up a line of defences as a barrier against any eastward movement on the part of Germany. With the absolute lack of any stability in Russia and the consequent difficulty of moving troops, it would be physically impossible for forces to penetrate very...
...group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal vanity or object of backsliding, but a just acquiescence to that same striving in others which we have set up for ourselves. See how gloriously the German people fights (rightly or wrongly): possibly one reason is German compulsory workmen's insurance. See how miserably the buds of Russian civilization (more socialistic even than the German) are being crushed: possibly one reason is Russian mysticism. Here's to the golden...
...others coming out will be given frequent opportunities to go on the river. The need for coxswains from 1921 is not so pressing, but more candidates from that class are still desired. Previous training is not required. Prospective coxswains should report at Newell this afternoon previous to the time set for crews to go on the river...
...school. The first of these has miserably decayed; the second, through the influence of the industrial revolution, has for the most part given way to either places of work or places of recreation; the third does not now seem to be measuring up to the standards which men have set for it in the past. These institutions, as I have described them, exist all about us; a large part of their product are at present killing one another on the battlefields of Europe. Sociologists may have their "complications and modifications," but the war in which we are now engaged points...