Word: shirk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serving himself in such a capacity. And after a man has been out of College five years, he has the right and the real responsibility of taking a hand in the government of the University by voting for members of the Board of Overseers. He has no right to shirk this responsibility any more than he has the right to shirk the responsibility of voting in public elections...
Hungary is still a kingdom-its old constitution is unchanged. In place of the King is a Regent, Admiral Horthy. His powers are limited mainly to exercising the royal functions without the effective power of vetoing legislation. Just for whom he is Regent is a problem that most Hungarians shirk; some say for himself; some say for Prince Otto, oldest son of Kaiser Karl; some say for a King who is yet to be elected. The problem is, however, satisfactorily settled for the time being by electing Yankee Jeremiah Smith as financial king-a Yankee at the Court...
Pressure is brought to bear on all sides, pushing him industriously in carefully differentiated directions. He feels that to shirk the responsibilities of his wealth would be cowardly. He wants to deal justly and humanely with the men in his coal mines, with the public, with Rhoda, with his firm, most of whose members are related to him. Rhoda refuses to believe in his good faith or in the limitations of his power for good...
...Mondell began by discussing the relation of college men to politics. He said that it was unfortunate "that those who are best trained and qualified to exercise the duties of citizenship seem to be the most inclined to shirk them." Referring to the "Get out the Vote" movement he exclaimed, "Vote wisely or unwisely, but Vote...
...private in the French infantry, who volunteered for service in 1914 although an American citizen, of Major Edward Ball Cole, who commanded the 1st (later the 6th) Machine Gun Battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade and died of wounds received at Belleau Wood, and of Elbert Walker Shirk, a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Flying Corps, who died...