Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia, Belgium, stricken France lonow what war, the waster of prosperity, the harbinger of famine and pestilence, can do to plunge a nation into turmoil. Waste, extravagance, restlessness, immorality, and lawlessness are the inevitable results of war. America has felt these reactions only slightly, but all that is necessary to convince anyone of the World War's cost is to consider the statistics. Ten million men, the finest youth of the world, are dust today. Three hundred and sixty billion dollars have been squandered in the madness of strife...
...fact, he owes-the whole thing to Napoleon Bonaparte. For while he was wrestling with the problem he felt repeatedly that somewhere he had seen a similar play defeated. He thought over all the games he had over seen and concluded that he must have been mistaken, yet the notion kept recurring that he had seen or read the correct solution to the question. Whether if was in a class in modern history or in what manner the missing link of memory was furnished it is hard to tell, but here is the dialogue which suggested...
...sure that Harvard will just trample on Princeton and the other football teams after beating Dartmouth," said Gertrude Ederle in an interview with a CRIMSON "reporter yesterday." "You know I won a bet from Helen Wainwright on the Dartmouth game. I felt that Harvard was bound to win, just because it wasn't the newspaper favorite...
...members of the team must have felt the same way I did when I was going to swim the channel. No one thought. I had a chance of getting across. The newspapers were all sympathetic, but skeptical just the same. I made me awfully determined to succeed...
...that's the way the men in the Stadium must have felt, Saturday. If this can keep that spirit, no one else will beat them, this year. That's why Gene Tinney defeated Dempsey: he paid no attention to other people, but just behind in himself. I think this confidence, or determination, or whatever it is is the most essential thing for an athlete to have...