Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loan is taken by the banks it will involve credit inflation and a further rapid advance in price. If taken by the people the advance in price will be far less considerable and the mobilization of the country for war will be more speedily accomplished. We cannot enjoy all our accustomed luxuries and comforts during the war, because there simply is not enough labor to produce them, and at the same time equip large armies with the huge quantities of military supplies required in modern warfare...
...far the only literature which has attracted notice has been the sparse poems of those few younger poets who have written as they fought. And their work is more notable in that it is a reflection of their accomplishments than in that it is stupendous...
...true that that accomplishment is far more splendid than the recounting? Was Achilles, Arcades, the ignorant, surly feller of men in battles, greater than Homer, who saw all of the known world, and beyond to the Pillars of Hercules, with a dreamer's eye? Was Henry the Fifth greater than Shakespeare, and Arthur greater than Tennyson...
Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...
From that dim age when the gay college boys observed the day of rest in a three-hour sermon, a longer dinner, and the remainder of the time in reading Numbers, recreation on Sunday has been in the moral eyes of the righteous the next thing to uncleanliness, and far worse than fratricide. Unending generations of college men have striven for ways whereby the boathouses, the tennis courts, and the athletic fields might be opened. And for all their striving, there is perhaps as much relaxation around Harvard Square on the Sabbath as there was in the time of John...