Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress will not be able to take up the question of military training for men under 21, until they have attended to the pressing needs of the country," Senator Reed of Missouri told a representative of the Yale News in Washington recently. He emphasized the great value to be derived from a summer spent in working on a farm...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...take pleasure in accepting the invitation of the CRIMSON to discuss the problems of grain speculation and food control, to which the attention of the country is now so much directed. Unprecedented wheat 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...
...cannot take space for details regarding the services of ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed...
...gets his supplies chiefly from the Quartermaster Corps, he has relations with other staff organizations, for he must handle other supplies and property sent to the line without passing through the Quartermaster Corps. This responsibility for goods and property received is one which no supply officer or quartermaster can take lightly. The Government is concerned not only to provide supplies and property but to get the maximum out of them. The Government demands strict accountability for all supplies...