Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...totally unfounded. When football reaches the stage where it is simply a demonstration of how much the rival coaches know, it ceases to be a sport; it is a trade. In a game where two opponents merely direct their respective machines the frequently used term "Gridiron Battle" assumes a grim reality of meaning. Individual initiative on the part of the players is no longer desirable, but on the contrary positively dangerous: it might interfere with the coach's plan...
...news that Brand Whitlock is to be displaced as minister to Belgium comes as a grim reminder that political tradition is still rampant. No matter how able a man his successor may be, the act smacks of an antiquated political bogie that dies hard. Mr. Whitlock has given eight years of the most efficient and most self-sacrificing service. Throughout the war he carried on not only delicate relations of the United States as a neutral and as a combatant, but served as well the interests of the other warring nations which were intrusted to him. His humanitarian work outside...
...cause itself, one of the most heart-compelling appeals of all time, makes a refusal impossible. To most of us the idea of starvation, lack of clothing, and lack of shelter are so far from actual experience that we can scarcely appreciate what they mean. Yet it is a grim fact that scores of Armenian children are dying daily from lack of shelter and nourishment; while one hundred and ten thousand others during the past year have been saved only by the efforts of the Near East Relief. If these thousands are to be given another year of life...
...fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony, too, which he attempts to put into the later parts of the book, is anything but convincing, and at some places where much space is used in talking about the grim humor if life, a somewhat boring result is unfortunately obtained. But the author is young, and we are inclined to doubt if any young person has a true comprehension of irony. There must be such a thing because we hear of it so often, but as yet we don't know...
Would you make the most of college? Would you conquer the "temptations" that grim visaged elders have warned you against? Would you make friends. Would you see "life...