Word: grim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people. It makes us bitter, but it has called forth a new American spirit. Sacrifice, the greatest power of mankind...
Gazing upon them with a grim forecast...
...what an impression this sight made on me, but it surely made my heart ache. Having seen the battle from the start, I could not help comparing it with the evolution of a football game. All preparations were made for the start, the men went forward with a grim determination, and after the battle everything was in readiness to receive the men, and the spirit of victory was in the air when the word of welcome was given...
Harvard and Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, and with them all the other colleges of this country, should not be unmindful of the grim legacy which a year or two of this war will bring to them just as it has to their sister institutions on the Isis and the Cam. They should look ahead, for this is the time when foresight counts with both men and nations. Let us have less attention to what the war has already cost our colleges and give more to what they can do, to meet the new problems which the war is bound...
...solemn time. We have been asked to make it a day of fasting rather than a day of feasting. With many of us this will be making a virtue of necessity; but few thoughtful people will feel disposed to make the day one of hilarity. This is a grim and gray time, like the month in which Thanksgiving Day occurs. The constant sense of the country being at war is a drain on the Nation's spiritual forces, and such an anniversary is a time to renew those forces from which a people's moral strength is drawn. --Boston Globe...