Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms, but they will also have bad habits to conquer...
Much has appeared in our newspapers recently to the effect that the belligerent Allies are getting thoroughly tired of the war. Correspondents who are supposedly expert diagnosticians of national and international ailments attribute this symptom to the state of affairs in Russia. They feel that the present opposition of the Slav to this war and the utter chaos in his country are crystalizing anti-militaristic feeling in the other nations, and that this situation may bring about a speedy peace...
...prices have appeared in the quotations of the boards of trade, and a great many people, including not a few members of Congress, have not unnaturally blamed the grain speculator for them. Most people look askance at speculation anyhow, and not everyone realizes that speculative prices are commonly a symptom, rather than a cause, of disagreeable facts...
...piece of editing this number reaches a high level: as a symptom of what is going on among the undergraduates it is in the highest degree encouraging...
Discussing Woman Suffrage as a social symptom, the speaker made a strong plea in its favor. The argument that women should not vote because they cannot fight is based on the antiquated theory that physical might makes right. Persuasion and argument are much more potent. Especially in such matters as marriage and divorce, and the education of children, and in taxation, women should be given an opportunity to use their influence. But, it should be added, if it had not been for the militant movement in England, the suffrage movement would have been dead years...