Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most surprising features of last week's elections was the over-whelming victory of woman suffrage in New York, considering that only a year or two ago the voters had turned it down almost as decisively as they now demand it. What are the reasons for such a sudden change of public sentiment? It does not appear to have any intimate connection with politics, although the anti-suffragists make much or the fact that they are defeated in good company, for the movement has been steadily gaining ground both in England and the United States since the out-break...
...sudden outburst of indignation from some of our regular army in France against the presence of able-bodied men in the ambulance and other non-combatant branches of services in the war raises the question--is it right that such men should choose minor services rather than take the more exacting and dangerous work of the front trenches...
...hundred of these men took examinations last summer on August 22 and 29 at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Captain Parker said that the selection of these men was going on now, but that he would be unable to secure a complete list until the end of this week. The sudden increase in the enrolment has of course postponed the announcement...
...year to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Law School, as was originally planned. Elaborate exercises were to have been held at the University June 19 and 20, but developments arising since the plans were first made have caused an indefinite postponement. The statement in regard to the sudden cancelling of the arrangements which has been made and sent out to all alumni of that school is given in part...
...however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms in defence of a nation which cannot insure their possessions...