Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only unsurmountable difficulty is the uneveness of the right margin. It seems extremely doubtful whether a machine can be invented which will produce even right margins in manuscript without a great loss of time. I think, however, that we will come to accept a slight unevenness in the right margin in the course of time...
...speculating on the 1919 Eastern championship, New York sport writers are wondering simply whether it will go to Colgate, Dartmouth, or Pennsylvania. They glance at the unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...
...practically fill the Stadium and the H. A. A. treasury, no matter whether Harvard play the Southwestern Baptist College or the Arizons Aggies a war-tired public is ravenous for any kind of football. But the University team, in spite of its irrefragable prestige, where does it actually rank at the end of the season...
...power of the League to bring us to such an Utopian state, we have never tried it out; we do not know that it will even help to end armed strife. As long as there is anything to be desired in the world men will fight for it, whether in the courts or on the battlefield. And how are we to tell whether some nations will abide by the awards of the League any more than some labor unions abide by the awards of arbitration boards. The future is no more assured now than it has been in the past...
...whom I want to curse out, but those who are not here tonight. When I was an undergraduate you had to fight your way into the Union for a football mass meeting and this room was crowded to the walls. When I arrived tonight I did not know whether I was to speak to ten or twenty...