Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...
...Though nothing definite has been announced, it is understood that if sufficient interest is shown, prominent Boston graduates of the University will back a scheme by which training in military aviation will be available for undergraduates this summer...
...University tennis team will meet Yale at New Haven at 10 o'clock this morning. Though the Yale team has not yet been defeated this year, it has not met either the West Side Club or the Longwood Club, which have defeated the University. Both teams have defeated Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Dartmouth, though the New Haven players have won by larger margins from Princeton and Dartmouth, the scores of these matches being 8 to 1 and 9 to 0 respectively, while the University lost three matches to Princeton and one to Dartmouth...
...topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written in the headlines of certain American newspapers, with the actual course of events would be an amusing, though profitless, occupation. Second, it is impossible to understand the progress of a campaign without a map of the field of operations. Third, it must be remembered that the date and place at the head of the dispatches are often put on in the office and so cannot be relied upon...
...Scutama near Vladivostok, requesting the University library to lend him during the time of the war the following works in the German language: "Ramisches Recht," "Pandelsten," "Kirchemrecht," and "Geschichte des Deutschen Rechtes." Prompt and safe return of the books is promised as soon as the war is over. Flattered though it is by such an appeal from the ends of the earth, the library is unfortunately not able to grant the request, as it does not posess the copies desired. In case any person has these works and would like to respond to the appeal, Mr. Lane would be glad...