Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...almost all the common diseases, and new ways of preventing their causes have been discovered, yet the real contagion among mankind is spread through weak minds, feeble mental influences, and bad environments. Drunkenness, tuberculosis, and almost all forms of vice are the result of this mental disease. Although the ideal Christian condition without disease is naturally the doctor's enemy, as without it he would not have his work, yet that fact is the very glory of his profession, for although striving towards his own self-elimination, he is following the teaching of Christ. Such a profession not only calls...
...backs, Dalton of the Navy, Thorpe of Carlisle, and Wendell of Harvard make an ideal backfield. Dalton is famous for his long, dodging runs in a broken field and is a reliable drop-kicker, having won the Army-Navy game for the last two years by this means. For the other halfback, Thorpe of Carlisle is unquestionably the man for the position. His placement kicking this season has been nothing short of phenomenal and makes him an especially valuable man in the present open style of football, as most of the big games this year have been won by goals...
Weighing slightly over 200 pounds, about six feet in height, and with an exceptionally natural aptitude for football. Fisher is an ideal man for his position. During the early part of this season, his duties as captain and more or less as coach of a green line, have hindered his playing, but lately he has returned to his old form, and judging from his work in the Dartmouth game, should again be an All-America...
...years old, 5 feet 9 inches in height, and weighs 153 pounds. In spite of his light weight he is excellent in all departments of the game. As well as being a versatile field general, a brilliant open-field runner, and a reliable drop-kicker, he is an ideal leader. Last year he was chosen for quarterback on many. All-American teams, although not on Walter Camp...
...vice, proves an eyesore to her noble parent because she has not been able to acquire sufficient avoirdupois to be accounted a beauty. A young American happens to disagree with the ideas of the community regarding the beautiful, and informs the young lady that she is his ideal. She is discovered by her sister in the arms of the stranger, and the news is conveyed to her "papa". The stranger flees, and the princess is shipped, as punishment, off to America. Once arrived in the "land of ready money", she follows the way often trodden by comic opera heroines...