Word: arens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many of us who find that we cannot take as much time off for skiing as we might like to and so aren't able to get where the really good skiing is. However, there are many golf courses and short trails within an hour's drive of Cambridge that offer a good chance for an afternoon's sport and are open to the public...
...Newt, she's a-r'arin' " school, but beneath all this there is plainly discernible a sincere and imaginative view of an unusual social experiment. A woman fed up with the childish bickering of the males shouts the play's most astringent line: "There aren't any men up here-only farmers...
...American people and their lack of what he calls sense of preparedness. Just what does he mean by that? Of what great danger must we beware that we must become an armed camp? These generalities often quoted by militarists have no meaning whatsoever. Mr. Bertsch says, "We aren't practicing because we haven't the right equipment". It amounts to this, "we aren't succeeding in getting the country keyed up to a violent state of militarism, because there are enough sensible people who would rather spend their taxes on schools, and other internal improvements than on supporting a very...
...field artillery officer after he has completed a short session at a summer camp. A smattering of hygiene, first aid, signal and fire control, hippology, communications and military history is not thorough enough training to make a man a second lieutenant. Four easy, indeed snap, courses aren't big enough to handle all the necessary material. The result is that the R.O.T.C. graduate comes out at the end of the curriculum with a host of vague, half-correct generalities, which are worse than ignorance...
...once the cloak of academic dignity is ripped from Military Science I the result is strange. There is a dash of mathematics, in which errors of 30 per cent aren't considered at all. There is a hint of a rule of thumb psychology in the lectures on "leadership" and "discipline." There are long weeks spent in memorizing the names of the parts of out-of-date cannon and the labels of the bags of powder. There are detailed descriptions on the workings of everything from obsolete machine guns to automobiles...