Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reference to the Adamson Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations...
...manuscripts tell us that in the Middle Ages students, when they had finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...After all that's happened to me in the seven weeks since I left, it's a hard job to plunge into the middle of things and tell you what it's all like. As a matter of fact, this is a different world; part of the war zone, indeed, but unlike France, Poland and Mesopotamia (the places we all have read about in connection with the war), and so far apart from our own home civilization that I am tempted to follow the accepted American missionaries' principle that "it's no use trying to describe India...
...just jump to the night of August first, when we landed in Bombay. We found out right away that there wasn't much chance of our "going up the Gulf" to Mesopotamia for a few months, at least, because the staff there is now complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much...
...violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and un sportsman like tactics, and, whether or not he escapes being penalized, he brings discredit to the good name of the game it is his duty as a player to uphold. You may meet players and even coaches who will tell you that it is all right to hold or otherwise violate the rules if you do not get caught. This is the code that obtains among sneak thieves and pick-pockets...