Word: broken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world's history. This will be a world Renaissance, and even so far as the arts of the world are now dragging in the dust, so then they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might. To plant the flowers and the joys of life again we must not lose from our hands those blue birds of happiness--poetry, painting...
...captain's injuries, which are not severe, consist of a broken arm and a slight shrapnel wound...
...between universities and the commercial, industrial universe of today, the greater becomes the call for college graduates. To meet this call, and to meet it with men specially trained in a specific phase of modern business, the older institutions of learning must eliminate what seems needless. So Cambridge has broken a time-honored standard to accommodate the needs of today. Nothing could show more strikingly the present demand for men of practical liberal education, and the duty of universities to develop them...
...shooting difficult. Fast work, however, was shown both by the informals and by the Brookline team, and in several instances brilliant hockey was displayed. The school team had a strong defence and offence, but used little team-play. The individual men were expert players, but their attack was broken up in most cases by the heavier skaters of the informals...
...Last spring he went to France with an ambulance unit and after finishing his work in that branch entered the aviation service. In a letter to a friend several weeks ago, Putnam told of a 2,000-foot fall, from which he escaped with nothing more serious than two broken teeth...