Word: used
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supply of Hodgson's "Errors in the Use of English...
...should use arbitration in preference to war.- Sherman in Cong. Record, Jan. 31, p. 1461. (a) We have not the navy for a Samoan war.- Boston Transcript, Feb. 1, 1889, p. 4; Samoan Affairs, p. 87; Cong. Record, Feb. 5, 1786, pp. 1595-7; (b) war is more costly than arbitration, is wasteful, inhuman and demoralizing...
...three questions to be presented for choice of subject for the next debate are as follows:- Resolved: That the Australian system of electing public officials should be adopted in the United States. Resolved: That the Government should use a part of the surplus in enlarging our ocean carrying trade. Resolved: That the United States should maintain the independence of the Samoan Islands...
...there has been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...Does well for a new man, but does not sit up and use his stretchers to any advantage. His rowing is unsteady...