Word: giantes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delegation of 50 members will represent the University at a giant Student Convention, to which every collegiate institution in the country will send a definite quota of one representative to each 100 students. The meeting will be held in Des Moines, Iowa, from December 31 until January...
...past lamentable failure in the speedy building of the indispensable implements of modern war, and of the great transport fleet which alone will enable us to utilize our giant strength after we have developed it, must merely spur us on to efficient action in the present and the future. To refuse to see and to point out these failures is both silly and unpatriotic...
...would be an incomplete compliment to call the Illustrated's photographers Arguses. They have more than the giant's quota of one hundred eyes when it is incumbent on them to take a photograph. They have a nice journalistic sense in picking out the meat of the thing to be photographed; they see everything and see it discriminately. Thus do the pictures in "Harvard's most progressive paper" become timely...
...delighted that Harvard voted for universal military service nearly three to one. If we do not prepare our giant, but soft and lazy, strength we shall become the China of the occident, and meet the disaster we shall have richly earned. THEODORE ROOSEVELT...
Over the causeways of history there stalks a giant figure--ever young, alert and bright-eyed. He is the Pioneer who has made history mean progress instead of a chronicle. Empires have been built, because he swept out over far seas, while statesmen stayed at home. Inventions and new ideas have been inaugurated, because the Pioneer dared and struggled against odds...