Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world's affairs...
...year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government's war policy, it remains for the inarticulate mass of voters, protected by the secrecy of the ballot box, to express the true verdict of the state. The election returns will indicate, more clearly than can newspapers or public speakers, whether the Germans of the Northwest, whose loyalty has been questioned, and the Northwestern farmers, on whose efforts so much of our success must depend, will wholeheartedly support the nation in its sacrifice...
...Student Council last night passed a resolution favoring the proposed plan of moving all College exercises back one hour in an effort to save fuel. It was voted to have the College pass judgment on the question, and if an affirmative verdict were returned, to place the matter before the Faculty, who would make the final decision. It was not expected that this measure would sail right through without opposition, for it entails a certain amount of inconvenience. An opinion full of opposition is published in low in which the writer sincerely disagrees with the proposed plan. This is just...
...regular practice game yesterday, Team A reversed Tuesday's verdict, when the substitutes secured a 4 to 1 victory by defeating Team B by a score of 10 to 6 in a contest replete with both errors and hits. Both teams suffered from the absence of several players and gave a somewhat listless exhibition. Captain Abbot officiated as umpire and Casey and Murray were unable to report, but will be back for today's workout. Phinney, who has been substituting with Murray at third base, was not on the field, and may leave the squad permanently in order to join...
...part of Harvard to do its part, whatever that be, in defending the country,--a fact which the past history of the institution renders it superfluous to repeat. There will even be those who, remembering the result of the presidential straw-vote in October, will discount the verdict entirely as reflecting the very opposite of the opinion of the country which is so unfortunate as to lie beyond the Connecticut. BRENT D. ALLINSON...