Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best individual work was done by Veavey, of Chicago, who secured first in the tumbling event and third in the parallel bars. Crosman, of Haverford, won first place in the all-around championship, with Cremer, of New York University, and Wiss, of Princeton, second and third respectively...
...group of amateurs, and still a greater for their trainer. It is again surely no reproach to point out that these students have not the wide range of light and shade, with subtly adapted tone-qualities and suggestions of emotional depth that have come to expect from the best choral societies and professional choruses. Such flexibility and sympathy bespeak a mature view of life in general and familiarity with a large musical repertory in particular, which even fairly earnest students cannot usually attain in their late teens or early twenties...
...this step will give a certain amount of moral support to the Allies, but real war is not composed of moral support alone. The man who stands with arms folded while his brother is struggling to throw off a madman might as well not exist. He may have the best wishes in the world for his brother's safety, but what good is he? America must regard the declaration of war as the overture to a tremendous movement of preparedness activity. First the army and navy, and then all our financial and economic resources must be mustered for the immediate...
...special mention is Mr. Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality. And finally, a strong ending to the Advocate is Mr. Willcox's "A Slave." That, like Mr. Damon's "Beauty," is a "real poem," well above the usual level of undergraduate publications. These two are the best pieces in the paper. If it were a matter of awarding a prize to one of them, the reviewer would be at a loss which to choose...
...their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct raw recruits; and the women's colleges stand ready to carry out the Red Cross work. And, finally, if the United States needs officers, fighters, aviators, surgeons, ambulance drivers, engineers, signal corps experts, or sailors, a hundred thousand college men offer the best that is in them...