Word: hides
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Engineering School has not received the publicity it deserves. Handicapped by starting in a war-time year, and lacking proper space and equipment, it has been forced to hide its light beneath a bushel. Next autumn., however, the school should be entirely ready to function on a permanent basis...
...exercises ahead one hour proves that the majority of students was not convinced of the merits of such a plan. We are not to think the scheme was opposed on selfish grounds alone. The horror of inconvenience may have influenced a great many, but they were sagacious enough to hide the fact. The measure went down to defeat because to too many it seemed impractical and futile...
...world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
...Plattsburg elephant-gray ponchos have been issued for our future officers. All reports indicate that they have fitted the wearers physically, spiritually, and artistically, as the glove fits the hand, or as the elephant's hide--for that matter--fits the elephant...
...egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false. The soldier is judged by his willingness, by his considerateness, by his courage. Those are a few of the qualities which go to make men, and by them men are judged without mistake...