Word: fair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement reads, "The average time enlisted men could run one mile would be six minutes, 30 seconds. After a course of cross-country running, three times per week for two months, a fair average of the time would be five minutes, 15 seconds. The mathematical improvement does not begin to indicate the all-round improved physical fitness...
...unnecessary to say that all night, or a fair part of it, the flute, bassoon will be respectively piped and strummed. 1917 does not celebrate often, but when it does it celebrates a great deal. Curfew shall not ring tonight...
...people has, by some prodding and a great deal of talking, been aroused to a fair and growing knowledge of the part it must accomplish in this agonizing war. Our young men notably have shown themselves eager for service in a manner no less honorable and courageous than in the past. We are preparing to send great armies to Europe of a half-million men of five million men if we need to do so. That is in accord with our strength. Yet five hundred thousand men alone will not turn the tide of war to victory. We need arms...
...before the war came along to lift their attention to loftier things, whether college men were democratic or not. A like subject is little worth the debate that has been put upon it. The question depends on what is meant by democratic. College men are more open to fair judgments of their fellows because they associate with them in a most intimate way. But, like other men, they are subject to the errors of judgment...
...game of war has started on Soldiers Field for fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies...