Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appeal, professional football will deal a heavy blow at the spirit which has made football almost unique among college sports. Football has obtained its position as the college sport par excellence largely because of its freedom from the taint of commercialism. By nature a rough, and at times a brutal game, football is never theless dominated by the amateur spirit, and the thousands of boys and young men who play it in our schools and colleges do it for love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing up of professional football teams will...
...Fitch spoke of three kinds of idealism which it is our duty to perpetuate: political, spiritual, and moral idealism. The political idealism of the Allies has been democracy, as opposed to autocracy. The spiritual idealism is the refraining from all the brutal tactics and atrocities that the enemy has practiced The moral idealism is the combatting of the principle that might makes right...
...twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...Every Man's Bit," written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, deals with a British slacker who is reformed and forced to enlist by the occurrence of a Zeppelin raid on London which kills his little girl. The former brutal father and husband is brought to his senses by this tragedy...
...property and lives of Americans on the high seas, and within our own country. Behind these immediate and intolerable grievances was the purpose of the United States to join with other nations in preventing the growth of a prodigious world power, which has shown its arrogant domination by brutal treatment of weak powers...