Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved out an extra hour in the afternoon for golf playing. And vice-versa...
...hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage: "The war was ended. I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves of October seemed stained with blood...
...this change will come to this country in due time. America will soon feel the war as it really can make itself felt. You do not yet know the awful dread with which England's homes have awaited each casualty list. When the time comes, and when the country reaches a stage where, as in England or France, every man you meet who is out of uniform immediately explains his lack of khaki without being asked; then America will be really, heartily in the war, and will truly understand the necessity...
Will come this dread question, 'O, what did we do for our dead?" MONTGOMERY S. LEWIS '11, Indianapolis...
...this sporting philosophy by which the American undergraduate lives, and which he seems to bring with him form his home, may be a very good philosophy for an American. It is of the same stuff with our good-humored contempt for introspection, our dread of the 'morbid', our dislike of conflicting issues and insoluble problems. The sporting attitude is a grateful and easy one, Issues are decided cleanly. No irritating fringes are left over. The game is won or lost. Analysis and speculation seem superfluous. The point is that such a philosophy is as different as possible from that which...