Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty sweep of the mind of the sporting writer that lifts him to the heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...
...last library chou-chou, through whose curved muzzle we had been receiving and sending messages to the central reading room thirty miles back of the lines, has been cut off. When I sent my last plea for help, I had to wait thirty minutes for an answer. Various bulletins which I recognized as spurious, came through, carrying such messages in a heavy German hand as? 'Out for two weeks', 'reserved for the Rainbow Division', or 'in bindery'. At last came back my own cylinder. With Edson, our flagbearer, who had been wounded in the head, drooling Beowulf...
...quickly scribbled the answer from memory and my college German: Nein, sagte der Bauer, wir haben kein Bett, aber Sie konnen mit Baby schlafen'. An instant later our last cylinder was on its way to the German lines...
...answer depends on the man. There is no accounting for the individual taste. At West Point we have many and varied customs, pleasant and unpleasant, but all handed down from former days, and constantly in the process of growth. We have found an answer that fits our purpose. The rest of the world may praise or blame as it sees fit. To us they are standards that we must follow to be worthy of the men before us. Some are for the good of the individual--though he often doubts it is plebe days and some we would not part...
...sailors are comrades, and I want to be friends with everyone. When a boy is called to war, it is his highest duty to answer his country's call. It is not his fault that he must have enemies. But when the war stops, we must become friends. Our life is too short to waste in holding a grudge against anyone. Sailors, who have faced a hurricane together, know what true comradeship is worth...