Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will face Worcester Academy this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock on Soldiers Field in the second game of the season. Little is known of the visitors' strength, aside from the fact that the team is composed; with one exception, of new players. The Freshmen are expected to show considerable improvement over their form in Wednesday's victory over Rindge. C. B. Butterfield will be on the mound for the Freshmen...
With her back to the sea, Holland's outlook before superior German strength is indeed dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing...
...present tendency of would-be political reformers to eliminate all party feeling from coming elections is no unmixed blessing. There are partisan elements in all elections which we would have permanently discarded, but the party system itself is a source of strength in a democracy and one which should not be tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will...
...world has ever seen, and that it is going to be a gruelling conflict that will test our country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength to win. And so I'm in it on that basis, and if it is possible for one atom in the mass to influence the result I am either going to influence it or be killed trying...
...loan. College men should not only be ready to buy Liberty Bonds, but to encourage buying on the part of everyone whose income will more than provide the necessaries of life. Everyone who can spare any money without depriving himself of something which is absolutely necessary for health, strength and usefulness should turn it over to the Government...