Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ands of Princeton--who had already been beaten by Colgate and West Virginia snakes it impossible to advance a claim to the national championship. The foot ball situation as a whole presents so tangled a spectacle that it will require a the ingenuity of expert sporting waters to straighten it out. But Harvard has beaten Yale...
...front it's even worse, for there there is often no chance to straighten things out--and material lies scattered everywhere, dead horses lie along the roads, often still harnessed to the wagons or caissons they were drawing away, and, worse yet, men, too, sometimes lie unburied for several days. But there is no time, often, for any other course. One fights until he is weary beyond words. He digs trenches and mans them; he carries back the wounded; he breathes poisoned gas and utters more poisonous oaths; he sleeps on and in the ground like a beast; eats what...
...Teutons' seeming disorders, but they, too, may rejoice that American industry is becoming more and more tied up as the war progresses. Surely, with a little of the censor's camouflage, one is as reasonable as the other. Our own confidence in the United States' ability to straighten out difficulties, and the prejudiced belief that Germany can not makes the enemy's position appear worse. Although the rumors are often well grounded, yet the uncertain knowledge of their seriousness renders them unreliable. Whatever hope springs from this may be encouraging, but is no reason to slow up our activities...
...hearty support. Not only internal, but also external discontent may be easily aroused. The United States considers itself valuable to the Allies, because of its resources, yet these are worthless if we cannot develop them for our allies. By confusing railroads with coal and then taking a vacation to straighten them out, we are showing ourselves more a hindrance than a help...
...learning nowadays that uniforms have psychological value. Some of us have sons who are wearing them for the first time. We see that the uniforms straighten them up, give them a new sense of responsibility, raise their ambitions and their standards. The benefits are not unmixed with evils. Men now and then get into uniforms who are inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national...