Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Make a big fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare...
What about the folks at home? Well, they were illustrating the devotion which some American families have been showing in the last two years to the cause of France--to the cause of civilization. They had built the fire for Richard; but they did a good deal more. The mother became a volunteer nurse in the hospital at Neuilly. Before she came she had written a letter to Abbe Klein, the chaplain of the hospital at Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often...
...same reason that Richard Hall went to France because they "want the reassurance" of having met a world-crisis, a mighty and commanding test of right and wrong, even with the fullest sacrifice, if necessary, that a mother could offer. As Christmas comes on, we fancy that many a fire will be lighted in many an American fireplace in honor of all these American boys who have died in France for a great idea, and in tender memory, too, of the mothers who have sent them. Boston Transcript...
...University, and still fower probably who are acquainted with the character or the facts of the life of the man himself. Not many objects which were identified with John Harvard remain to us. Only one book of the library he gave to the College was saved from the fire, which razed Harvard Hall in 1764, and his house in Charles town was burned to the ground 11 years later
...undergone when a subject tries rhythmically to lift a weight by flexing a finger. The subject bends his finger and pulls, till his finger will bend and pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section during, a game. Enthusiasm can "egg on" a strong fighting team to work wonders. Pennsylvanian...