Word: butting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plato despised the Sophists, who taught for pay, but the conditions Plato dealt with were not like those of today. Nowadays teachers are not isolated individuals who roam the streets offering their learning for what they can get. They are members of institutions and it is the privilege of these...
The schools, it must be said, respond to the best of their ability, but their ability is sometimes very limited. Public institutions stumble over the question of appropriations, private institutions meet the problem of insufficient endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal...
Captain Woodward was impressed with the hospitality of the British. He continued, "When the Unit first began its work there was a sort of indefinable coolness between the British and Americans, but the former soon found that the dollar mark was not an American's criterion of living; the latter...
"The first wounded American dough-boy to come into our hands set the entire Unit in ecstasies of delight--every Harvard man swelled with pride--not because the poor fellow's wounds amounted to anything in themselves, but because they were a positive, visible proof to our British companions that...
Our valiant little Army in Northern Russia has been defeated again by the reorganized forces of the Reds. We can picture the feelings of the Allied officers and men placed up there in the Russian winter, not to win a victory and crush the forces of the Bolsheviki--the Army...