Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scene was set for what followed. When the current grounded, a loud report was heard and the people were blinded by a sudden flare, only to find themselves in darkness. Moments of hysteria were inevitable...
...direction as to be more useful at the present time. As most of us must learn before long how to handle a bayonet, we can have no better chance to become practiced in the art than now. Not only is it possible to secure training oneself, but also to find out how it is done, with a view to instructing others later on. By gaining his knowledge today, the officer of tomorrow will be so much quicker and better equipped to secure his commission. Far more than recreation, military value is an important reason to bring out a large number...
...science plays a leading role in the present tragdy of the world. Science itself is, of course, neither moral nor immoral, neither for war nor for peace. It is merely a method, embodying far-reaching principles,--a method that is applicable equally to good or to evil. Thus we find science today contributing impartially to the means of destroying life and of preserving it, and to the modes of inflicting pain and of relieving human misery...
...because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary now. Why should they sacrifice their lives if their lack of fitness makes the sacrifice not worth while...
There may be something ironical about wishing a Merry Christmas to a nation just started in the first stage of a terrible war. Too many of our homes will find it difficult to be merry at this time; too many of us will feel the loss of friends too keenly to enter into the usual Yuletide spirit. For whether the war has directly affected our family or not, the thought of its existence is enough to make Christian enthusiasm wane a little. This will be Christmas when we can and must get away from thoughtless amusement, from that kind...