Word: going
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land he is willing to sacrifice them without gain. As you try a smoke from the top and find...
...entire net proceeds from the game between the First Maine Heavy Field Artillery and the Informal University football teams on Saturday are to go to the Red Cross. This disposal of the receipts has been determined at the request of the artillerymen, who prefer to have the Red Cross benefited rather than add to their own Regimental Union fund...
...Third Battalion will go today to the Armory in the basement of Persis Smith Hall and draw their ordnance. Tomorrow both the Second and First Battalions will be supplied...
...this place. When Harvard played Princeton in that memorable struggle last year but few thought that Soldiers' Field would so soon become what its name implies. War seemed a long way off; the thirty thousand people were then far more intorested to find out whether Horween's kick would go true than what would be the result of the battle on the Somme. Things have changed. The turf in the Stadium is trampled by the feet...
This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...