Word: widely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...winter carnival held annually among the New Hampshire hills by the Dartmouth Outing Club wll come this winter on February 15, 16 and 17. The carnival has undergone a steady growth since its beginning several years ago, until at the present time, its distinctive posiion attracts wide interest, even rivalling the Montreal carnival...
...university has the slightest doubt about the ability of the football team; the feeling is campus-wide that the men composing the eleven can compete successfully with either Harvard or Yale. It is not solely because it is a Princeton team that members of this university have confidence in it; it is largely by reason of the absolute conviction that the team this year is decidedly above the average in ability and that it can use its strength and show to the football world that it deserves to receive first honors this season...
...college." In September, 1752, they voted that the college be fixed in Princeton and ground was broken there in 1754. Soon afterwards the cornerstone of the first building, Nassau Hall, was laid, and the building completed in 1757. It was 170 feet long and 54 feet wide, and had, as now, three stories and a cupola. Twice since its erection the interior of the building has been destroyed by fire but the honest workmanship of its first builders has enabled it to survive both catastrophes. The college was removed to Princeton in the autumn of 1756 and opened there with...
This is no longer the nineteenth century when American always tried to keep to herself. The twentieth century is characterized by world-wide competition in trade and commerce. Why has England been at war with Germany? Is it not for commercial supremacy? At the termination of the war, I venture to predict that the competition in the world maker will be felt more and more keen, not between England and Germany but between American and the victorious party. Also I venture to predict that the busy market will be found in China, whose untold resource have long surprised the whole...
...anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico," Mr. Paine says. Not to have intervened has meant, we reply, the killing of hundreds of Mexicans, the loss of several of our soldiers, to say nothing of that world-wide disgrace and ridicule which the administration is too brave to mind at all. To have recognized Huerta, however, and legally insisting on our rights, would have probably meant nothing worse than the settling of the Mexican problem months...