Word: clung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is no logical reason, and that is why the new army should be raised according to the principle of universal liability. The antiquated and undemocratic system of volunteer armies failed miserably in the Civil War. England has suffered needlessly and delayed final victory for the Allies because she clung to the old tradition of volunteer armies during the first year of the war. Surely this country will not be deaf to the advice of a glorious and respected ally that has tried old weapons and found them useless...
...false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things of the mind and the spirit which make for the most enduring growth. On the contrary, possessed of a great tradition in education, they have clung to it firmly...
...Miss Ehrlich, proved a very interesting flashlight of the lowly in their more exalted moods. The undergraduate of a few years ago clung to evening clothes when he dipped into make-believe. The mucker by the subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged...
...here that the scientists of that expedition prophesied that he would have a brilliant future. In the winter of that same year he passed through a terrible ordeal in the death of both his father and wife. Yet, though a changed man, he clung to his desire for new knowledge and, in accordance with a promise expressed at Halifax, went in 1876 to Scotland, where he assisted in sorting the collections of the "Challenger" expedition, and selecting the Echini, on which he later prepared a report...