Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...majority of those sent are soccer, and not rugby balls. Neither the equipment nor the playing fields are qualified for the American game, while soccer may be played almost anywhere, and without extensive equipment. Soccer, moreover, is played by the English and the French Soldiers...
...last night the reports of the University Red Cross Committee showed that almost one thousand members of the University already have the right to wear the celluloid button which designates its owner as a member of the greatest organization in the country. The remaining thousand have only until this evening to do their small part towards a great cause--a cause which is so big that it can make the best possible use of the smallest contribution. One dollar is a small initiation fee for such a society; even with war taxes on railroad fares and Pullman seats...
...adage about the acorn and the oak is reversed to a large extent as regards war. The gigantic preparation that is necessary,--in ways of transportation, cantonements, supplies, etc., before we can really take care of the big armies which are to come in the next few years, are almost inconceivable. My one constant hope is that the desire to enter the fight as soon as possible will not cause some of these preparation to be hustled or slighted. Everything up front depends on the efficiency of the forces in the rear...
...take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...
...Almost everyone knows of the marvelous work which the Red Cross is doing in comforting the soldiers in the trenches and in the rest camps behind the battle front, of the indispensable aid it has brought to the hospitals, and of the tremendous good it has done to the needy children and old people; but few appreciate the indirect effect which all this work will bring about. We are giving a demonstration to the people of our allies that we are really in this war. We are showing them that we are not the 'land of the dollar...