Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...veto bad bills for fear of offending a section of the party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes of party; in a word, instability and inefficiency in the government. De Tocqueville and Bryce have noticed these evils. The Confederate States recognized them and one of the changes they made in our constitution was to give the President six years and make him ineligible for re-election...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 7. - Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew today telegraphed for "Bob" Cook. who has just returned to Philadelphia from a trip to Europe. Word was received from Mr. Cook's partner that the veteran coach would be in New Haven as soon as possible after adjusting his business. It is thought that Mr. Cook will be in the city tomorrow for the annual spring regatta...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 30. - Word has been received from the University of California athletic team that they will not reach the East in time to participate in the annual invitation games of the Yale Track Athletic Association here next Saturday. They will meet the University of Pennsylvania at New York...
...word will certainly not be out of place this morning in expression of the appreciation which the University feels of the faithful devotion to their work in the interests of class and Alma Mater which causes so many of our athletes to remain in active training during the coming vacation, which is to bring to other members of the University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects...
...this connection a word to those whose training is not so vigorous as to demand their remaining in Cambridge, but who are nevertheless expected to observe certain general rules regarding sleep and diet. The vacation will offer many temptations to laxity in these respects and the necessity of guarding against them cannot too strongly be urged. Every man owes it to himself, to his team and to the University to be as strict with himself when he is free from restraint as when he is under...