Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them with picks and anything that came handy. I was out there the two days before the counter attack, and, of course, went out the minute we received the news over the phone, but things were comparatively quiet. The whole outfit volunteered to go into the trenches and a good many of them...
...guess I told you about having two men hit on my immediate right and one on my left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...
...good to see that the undergraduates are taking an increasing interest in the athletic arrangements for the spring. With this and with the meeting of the athletic heads of Harvard, Princeton and Yale, there appears to be hope for the resumption of intercollegiate athletics--on a modified scale. The opposition to them so far has been based chiefly on the ill effects which they might bring with them. It was feared that if they were resumed, so also would the former extravagant basis be resumed; and that they would so preoccupy the undergraduates that the latter would partially or entirely...
...States and the leading men of the War Department advocate them. Second, the colleges which have maintained an intercollegiate system have not shown that their patriotic fervor or their interest in their nation's affairs has waned, while their athletics have been much more substantial and have done more good for a greater number...
...Lord and Lady Algy" is, as you choose, a bad example of the well-made play, or a good example of the badly-made play. Its characters are masters of misunderstanding, they employ their subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway...