Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Storey, who obtained his A.B. degree from the University in 1866 and his A.M. in 1869, and was also a graduate of the Law School; was admitted to the Bar in 1869, and has since become one of the leading lawyers of the country. He has in turn been president of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations, and is at present the president of the Anti-Imperialist League of this country. He has been twice an Overseer of the University, from 1877 to 1888 and from...
...position of college graduates in the community has changed greatly from the days when colleges were primarily established to prepare students for the ministry. Each one of the professions in turn has become a field for college-trained men, and in every field so opened the college man has gained pre-eminence or monopoly. But among business men--men engaged in manufacture, transportation, commerce, mining and agriculture--college training down to the present has been the exception rather than the rule. In spite of the increasing volume of graduates who have made business their vocation, leadership in business...
...spinning nose dive, where the machine falls perpendicularly, spinning around, its longitudinal axis as it falls; the renversement where you give a jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn the machine on its side till the wings are vertical and just plain fall without any supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude and you certainly do come down. You fall faster and faster till the wind roars...
Flanders, the cockpit of Europe; the Balkans, the checkerboard of European politics; in a word, this has been Continental history for over a century. We may go far in our explanations of the causes of this war, but we must inevitably turn to the land of many races and mongrel nations if we are ever clearly to understand them. The events of July, 1914, were in great part the result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes...
...prejudice. Let us remember that misguided and barbarous as the Germans appear, they are, after all, of the race from which we all spring. They undoubtedly have violated many of mankind's sacred laws, but they are human. When, crushed by the burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their proposals. In preparation for that time, we need not hurriedly condemn their every utterance. We should do better rather to maintain our traditional virtue of fair play...