Word: even
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Navy is perhaps even better off in the number of well-known players. Bumpkin Island has men of the calibre of Cawley, a former collegiate star. The Newport Naval Reserve, however, has the greatest aggregation at present in Naval football of the vicinity. Black, captain of the Yale team last year, and Barrett, Cornell's sensational quarter-back, are the more prominent. Other Yale men in the lineup are Pumpelly, the drop kicker, and Callahan, a centre. Gerrish, a former Dartmouth captain is also playing. Several other former college players could be mentioned. This list has not considered the possibilities...
...been said by some who study history, that times make men; and again, by others who study history, that men make the times. Neither statement is a full truth, even as human truth is constituted. For there have been great epochs with small men, and small epochs with great men, who burst their hearts against the narrow walks of their environment, and died...
This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...
...times call on the man. Even they, the greatest of the great men who have ever lived, would find in this generation the need for their fullest powers...
...mighty glad I am here, as I consider it a very great privilege to be able to take an active part, even if it is a small part, in the fight for the greatest cause the world has known, next to that of Christianity. This war is like a football game on a huge scale. It takes the very best men to play it and success depends on wonderful team-work and tremendous sacrifices. And there is a tremendous amount at stake...