Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...active members, ten of whom were from Yale. The members of the patrol learned how to operate machines in a very short time and pleased the naval authorities by their services in connection with the manoevures of the Atlantic feet off Sandy Hook. They clearly demonstrated that submarines beneath eighteen feet of water could be discovered from a seaplane...
...with its comfortable smugness in regard to probation. Nothing but this attitude is responsible for the fact that men can go on probation, and still sail calmly on with no change in their lives until the trap upon which they walk is sprung and their footing completely drops from beneath them. When a man is put on probation his friends slightly deplore the fact, but seldom do they exert any moral pressure to impel the man to attend his classes and do the reasonable amount of study that is required to save...
...account of the bad weather yesterday, the practice of the teams was confined to a short run beneath the Stadium...
...situation there is perhaps not as evident at first sight as in England; for the "plant" of the continental university is so much smaller than that of a residential institution like Oxford or Cambridge that the outward effects of its desertion are less immediately obvious. But a look beneath the surface or a talk with any of the academic people who remain will quickly reveal the true state of affairs. And yet, despite the overwhelming strain of it all, so devoutly does France believe in the necessity of maintaining in every possible way the continuity of her intellectual activities that...
...Scoop," shorter of the number's two stories, Mr. Babcock's hero becomes a cub reporter because the journalistic conversation of his fellow-under graduates "had lit the glowing fires beneath my dreamy soul." The pathos of an ending whose somewhat enigmatic nature may be due to striving after up-to-date fictional methods is not effective after the apparent burlesque of the pursuit of a mysterious looking individual...