Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...States is going to have a hard time convincing our allies that Mexico should be let alone to work our her own salvation. Mexico has had nearly as long as we have had to do that, and to date not much of a salvation has resulted. Apparently the only thing that the American government can do is to show Carranza that there will have to be a change of heart on his part, and that such a change will have to come quickly...
...that the tennis authorities know what they were doing when they advocated a move so out of harmony with the glorious by-gone history of tennis. A step at once so radical and so harmful to the existing principles of the tennis regime can be anathematized as only one thing--insidious propaganda. What we want to know is who is at the bottom of all this? Is there any number of persons in this University who seriously contend that this new doctrine is in accord with the aims of this nation? No! By all means, No! As Freud...
...attempting to produce Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet", the Dramatic Club set for itself a difficult task. Brilliant as the dialogue is, the play is distinctly of the "closet" type--designed especially to be read. Consequently, the "atmosphere" of the piece is a most elusive thing and extremely difficult to get across the footlights. That the performance almost succeeded in doing this is a matter for no little praise. In fact, the effort was such an admirable one, and there is so much to commend, that a would-be critic hesitates to mention any of the faults--we have...
...average politician, the Public is something to be fawned on one minute and fleeced the next; for the marginal factory owner, it is something to be fleeced always, and fawned on when occasion required. For Mr. Gompers, it is no doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each...
Counting its 9000 or so summer school students, Columbia has an enrolment of nearly 16,000. Of one thing certainly there can be no question. Columbia's sphere of influence is the largest of any institution of learning in this country. Indeed, it probably wields more influence over more men and women than any other university in the world, because its announced registration of 16,000 does not begin to tell the whole story. Thousands of other persons come under the Columbia spell through the medium of extension courses and lectures given in all parts of Greater New York...