Word: surely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston's mayor is like the election of the President of the President of the United states in that it happens once in every man's undergraduate days. It is not quite so important, but it is often as interesting, and frequently more amusing. Today four candidates are so sure that they are to be people's choice that they have left off old-time political methods and placed the matter in the hands of that mysterious figure, the Common People. There has been no bitterness in this campaign; it has been a question of impressing upon the public...
...would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely to be much...
...music. We have not recognized the substantial character of the common people of Russia or the economic importance of Russia to this country. I hope that some wealthy benefactor of Harvard will see fit to endow a chair of Russian economics in our School of Business Administration. I feel sure that freer intercourse between the two countries will be of advantage not only to Russia but to America
British forces have captured Jerusalem from the Turks. Ever since war started in this region all Christianity has been hoping for the reconquest of the Holy Land. Military value is important to be sure, but is insignificant to the historical and religious interest. Mohammedans have held this city for over twelve centuries, although their away was twice broken for short periods. Now the Christian troops seem to be making a more permanent acquisition, as they drive the Turks before them. The English have succeeded in accomplishing what was hoped for, and attempted during many years...
...often we have wondered why Germany, who exercised so vast a sway in the marts and the cloisters of the world before the war, should have cast aside the method of gradual but sure triumph for the ruthless one of gun and sword...