Word: going
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able to go on the hardest 20 mile hikes. This was the first of the 'development battalions' which later did so much to improve the physique of our boys...
George Arliss, as the father, gives us a remarkably distinguished picture of the British spirit which made it possible for England to go on building more ships and munitions, and sending millions of here sons into battle, when the flower of the nation had died. Mrs. Arliss affords her husband able support, and Olive Tell, as the old sweetheart, is pleasant to look upon...
...given an opportunity to board with their fellows in Gore and Standish Halls. No mere matter of physical distance should deter them from taking advantage of this proferred chance to get better acquainted with their class; the benefits far outweigh any possible disadvantages. Let us not see 1922 go through college with a "Yard clique" distinct from the rest of the class...
...give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved out an extra hour in the afternoon for golf playing. And vice-versa...
...willing to strike out boldly against any league of nations that is encumbered by a Democratic President, you are turning to bolshevism. If you fail to go into a league you are projecting somebody else in the same unenviable direction. What did we do without a phrase so happily applicable to all human needs? Boston Post...