Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging on "a double disloyalty"; and that, when all is said, "they are failing both the nation and the race." It has come to this then, that the vulgar fanaticism of that editor, and those like him, can turn on the finest expression of American activity the war has produced; that a wretched conceited little scribbler, sitting in his sanctum, can offer impertinent advice and a gratuitous insult to his own classmates who are working and dying while he is editing whimpering little verses. Truly, those who believe...
...star at bat, knocking out a single and a double, and Bond and Henderson continued their good hitting, each driving out a single. Coach Duffy gave the men an extra half-hours practice in batting after the game, emphasizing the importance of a quick swing and took his turn at the bat to illustrate his points. During the batting practice, Ellis, who has been playing in left field for Team A, was hit on the head by a ball thrown by Murray, who was catching, and was knocked unconscious, but quickly recovered with no lasting effects from the blow...
...patrol and the motor boat patrol; a research committee to co-operate with the National Research Council, a unit of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, and has built a complete armory and stables. If war comes, Yale is prepared to put its equipment at the disposal of the Government, to turn over Yale Field and the armory as a training camp, and to organize more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Dean Jones has said that if war came he would like to see the university grounds turned into a training camp, the dormitories into barracks, the "Commons" dining hall...
...first, there must be greater utilization of women. For this, it would be necessary for those who are not now at work discharge their servants that they might be used for other purposes. The second possibility is in cutting down on luxuries. The men thus released could enlist or turn to more necessary production. Similar results would be obtained if we all wore our old clothes twice as long. The textile industry could then cut its labor in half...
...Professor ----'s well-known anti---- sympathies." Or this is not at all unlikely: "An emergency meeting of the ---- ---- for ---- in 60 Mount ---- ---- was raided last evening. ---- ---- was speaking when a missile in the form of a rotten ---- broke up the gathering and scattered the ----, who failed to turn the other ----." The dramatic interest and effect may even be considerably heightened in this...