Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics, is so far removed from the real advantages of the civil service that men cannot run the risks of sudden unemployment attached to it. There is no doubt but that college men would enter the consular service in as great numbers and of as good character as could be wanted, could the service be removed from the vagaries of changing administrations...
...anybody seen the Opera Association? Is it to be another College mushroom, come and gone in a year? Perhaps we are looking for it to crop up before its season; perhaps it is intending to surprise us some fine morning by bursting into sudden glory; perhaps it will not be as unwieldy an organization to handle as in its infancy. Al these things are conjectures. But we know that a great many men are making their yearly resolutions to take advantage of the Opera this winter and would be glad to hear the Associations awake and stretch itself. May they...
...Harvard graduates. This has, indeed, been a quick recovery and we hope that it will prove permanent. Harvard graduates in the Law School evidently took to heart the criticism which they received. And the elections this year are the more gratifying because they tend to indicate that the sudden deterioration was merely a temporary lapse of ability or application...
...four oars were all given several racing starts in which they were so closely matched that it was impossible to pick a winner. A time row was expected until quite late in the evening when a sudden shift in the wind rendered conditions unfavorable...
...which the Associated Press works is that every newspaper member must supply the news of its immediate vicinity to the central bureaus located in the larger cities of this country. It is the duty of the Press to get all the "news that breaks," that is, news of a sudden and unexpected nature, besides all routine news, and to distribute it in the best possible form...