Word: grim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...money. I do my work with my eyes upon the eternal stars and my feet upon the grim realities of American life and the problems and dreams of its vital and human men and women...
...except by Princeton two weeks ago. The Bulldog, on the contrary, is considerably the worse for wear; the claw-marks of the Tiger have not yet healed. Yet for that reason Yale, always a fighting organization, will fight harder than ever. It is Harvard's job to smother the grim, determined blue-jerseyed eleven, and we have faith that the Harvard machine can do it. The Crimson team has the driving, smashing power of a locomotive. Whether Yale can stop it remains to be seen...
...fiction is concerned we are not disappointed. Mr. Kister, who, judged by his two stories, loves the tactual, tells his grim tale well. Mr. Davidson although we early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker...
While the Allies continue the discussion of peace at Paris the Russian peoples face the grim actualities of war, war to the death between the forces of order and anarchy. Our Archangel force continues to fight off the Reds to the best of its ability but the loyal Russians have ceased to set any store by its efforts or by any assistance from the Allies whatsoever. They are making a last appeal to Japan to save them from ruin...
...made will soon have divested the Colege of the last lingering signs of the days of military regime. They were days which, had their advantages and their disadvantages, but undoubtedly very few would elect to live them over again. Let the "peace paint" be applied ever so rapidly, the grim effects of war cannot be effaced too soon from the normal activities in the University...