Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...half years. The value of machine guns and automatic rifles placed in salients, with the intervening stretches of the trench only very lightly manned, was pointed out and explained in detail. Such a system of defense although requiring fewer men in the first line trench is by far the most effective, Captain Amann asserted...
...their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject. If he had, he probable wouldn't have been a lexicographer. True sense of humor goes as far beyond this definition as solid geometry beyond plain arithmetic. It consists not only in perceiving the comic, but in searching for it, and at times even creating at. Above all it deals less with the occasional laugh than it does with the constant smile...
...first of the regular Monday evening meetings held in the Smith Hall Common Room by Professor Bliss Perry. "I am sorry," he said, "for those who go through this college and never discover what Harvard University is, but not sorry for that fellow who comes here from far off, and feels out of place and awkward, but who does the real thinking, dreams the dreams which have changed the face of the whole world." He said he was sorry for the "spoon fed" fellow who has been "tucked into bed by his intellectual friends" and enjoyed the society...
...fervently hoped that since this is the last day iof Camp Library Week, giving toward that fund will not have ceased among the members of the University. The latest reports issued from campaign headquarters indicated that the sum desired was still far from being in the Library War Council's hands. We are not greatly agitated over this announcement, for it is quite an American characteristic to put off giving until the last minute--not so much that there may be a possible chance of escape from the demand, but rather because the American loves a whirl-wind finish...
...yesterday's meeting, Coach Haines spoke briefly to the candidates, telling the plans for fall competitions as far as they are yet formed. "War has shown athletes to be the most desirable officers," he said, "and therefore it is our duty to train more of them." Of all the athletic activities offered this fall by the University, there can be no doubt that crew is the most beneficial, and the most interesting...