Word: worth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...protest. In union there is strength, and the slang "crabbing" must be kept out of our national vocabulary. Yet we cannot help feeling that the War Department has erred. To shelve a leader is not the easiest way to win the war. A good general in France is worth many in San Francisco...
...entered every sphere of industrial life. Unfortunately it has not worked well, and has been a serious menace to progress. The tendency of such control is almost without exception to crush private ownership. The railroads illustrate only too well how government supervision squeezes industry until it is no longer worth while for individuals to conduct it. At such a point economic organization evolves into public ownership, as it has done in the past and as it will doubtless continue to do. It is very possible that there may be some form of public control which is compatible with private ownership...
...within reach of, those young men who desire them and who will undertake the courses of study and discipline necessary to their attainment. As preparation for service in this war, and as extension of America's military establishment for contingencies unforeseen, the curriculum offered by Princeton 18 of serious worth. Boston Transcript...
...time when the undergraduates are beginning to worry over the problem of the coming summer and when most of us are troubled as to how we can best train ourselves for future commissions it is well worth while to look over the offer of our own R. O. T. C. camp...
...will be carrying out the wishes of your country. Certain men have been assigned the heavy task of organizing the resources of the nation for this tremendous struggle. They know where men are to be found, and what are each man's qualifications and abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week, the War Department says. "We need so many men, of such and such categories--and it finds them. On the day when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such...