Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...
...only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
...students from the main issue. An author--an alumnus of Yale--puts these word into the mouth of one of his characters: "The American colleges and universities today are splendidly equipped institutions organized for the prevention of learning." One writer refers to the college as an "educational vermiform appendix...
...these extracts from diaries, journals, and letters. The collection covers work in the trenches, in Serbia, with the ambulance corps, hospital units, the distributing service, the Foreign Legion, and the aviation corps. The names of more than 400 University men enlisted in the conflict are given as an appendix...
Here is an illustration of the way in which friendly feeling between Yale and Harvard can be strengthened. I send it as an appendix to my communication of a few days past...