Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...team's last practice in a body tomorrow afternoon. The members of the Class will assemble between Standish and Smith Halls at ten minutes of 2 o'clock, and preceded by the Regimental Band, will march to Soldiers Field and cheer the eleven as it goes through its last bit of preparation for Saturday's game. The cheer-leaders, E. L. Bigelow '20, and J. M. Mitchell '20, will act as marshals of the parade. The name of a third cheer leader will be announced today or tomorrow...
...diet of man has been the subject for many dissertations, more or less profound, from that early day when the delectable Eve bit into the delectable apple, and found it good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
...This is likely to prove a long, hardwar. We will all probably have ample opportunities 'to do our bit.' I want to urge men who are convinced that they are prevented by perfectly valid reasons from rendering military service at this time to do their bit now by holding...
...with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed in our memory where other things have faded. This speaks somewhat for the power of our associations with the 4th of July...