Word: straightening
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There is no doubt that this country, through as able a man as General Crowder, will be able to straighten out Cuba's difficulties. But the mere fact that President Wilson had to send an American to the assistance of President Menocal is enough to prove that the experiment begun by the United States is not yet successfully completed. It shows that whatever action taken concerning Hayti or the Philippines, it must be cautious and taken with the full understanding that our Cuban barometer, after many years of watching, has not yet risen from the "storm" to the "fair weather...
...subject of peace in conjunction with the President's activities is perhaps best passed over rapidly in this country. The Treaty of Versallies was so entangled with the Covenant of the League of Nations that the United States has not yet been able to straighten out the two to its liking. For two years since hostilities ceased we have remained technically in a state of war with Germany while we fought over the peace which our President arranged in Europe...
...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...