Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...critical of the government, dissatisfied with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject. If he had, he probable wouldn't have been a lexicographer. True sense of humor goes...
...desperate patrol toward the lines of the hostile Blues. With the skill of a Peo, Bjornstadt brought his hero into action and with bullets whizzing about him left this second Roland to his fate. What happened to Sergeant Hill? Even Captain Hamlin, Chief of Sections, was unable to answer this mystifying query. Did he return unharmed to the Red headquarters, or is his body now rotting on the Hunterstown sheet...
That is a large question for even the wisest men. And the wisest men are never alive in any given age. Although they, the wisest men of ancient and more philosophical years, might have found some answer to the question in this year of grace...
Secretary Roosevelt's answer to the question "Would you advise members of the Naval Reserve to return to the University this year," was, "I do, and most emphatically. The training which is being arranged here is excellent, and it is the best thing most of the class four men can do." The reporter then asked what opportunity these men would have of taking examinations for ensigns' commissions, and the Secretary made this rather unexpected reply...
...erroneous belief and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent. The fundamental purpose of this conference is to answer the recent attacks on classical studies...