Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sunday morning the men were divided into three groups, and several hours were spent in topographical sketching, including the making of road maps as well as place and position sketches. A portion of the time was devoted to signalling. Bad weather necessitated a return early Sunday afternoon...
Only it would be too bad if one of those nice Untersee Booten should grow rapacious for the Dutch steamer on which the Count sails, and the sinking of another liner be celebrated in Berlin. That fear beset us with respect to Count von Bernstorff. It is repeated with intensity for Count von Tarnow...
...editorials will pass; they are neither striking nor hopelessly bad...
...should like to ask, forgetting for a moment the false rhetoric and almost inconceivable bad taste of the latter, which of the two displayed more activity, ardor and self-sacrifice and supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the editorial? While the latter, safe at home, was mouthing rhetorical rubbish about "the one loyalty" and the "greater cause," the men whom he attacked were saving lives at the constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging...
...verse, which has mostly emancipated itself from being libre, the authors are Messrs. S. F. Damon, J. R. Parson, M. Cowley, W. A. Norris, L. K. Garrison, R. H. Snow, A. Putnam, P. R. Doolin, R. S. Hillyer, and W. Willcox, Jr. None of it is bad and some of it is good. With two or three exceptions, it is all facilely academic...