Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unusual opportunity to combine pleasantly the Christmas shopping with "doing out bit" for a cause that cannot but appeal to all men with any interest in humanity--and to Harvard men particularly...
They come from the Far West, where of necessity the interests of the belligerents and the stupendous tragedy of the great struggle must be felt less keenly. They are going a longer distance to "do their bit." The spirit that is symbolized in the service of these hundred men is worthy of our highest praise...
Just as in the fall and spring, when many are using the gymnasium, hundreds of others prefer the tennis courts, so in winter, although the gymnasium is then less unobjectionable, cost of us favor the open air. There is something a bit unpleasant in the cold still air of the gymnasium. Out of door exercise is vastly more alluring and invigorating...
Here, for example, is a bit chosen at random. It comes from a letter by Victor Chapman '13, of the American Aviation Corps...
...drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb...