Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Human life on the 'western front is as precarious today as it has ever been in the history of man. I cannot give the exact average length of life in the front trenches, but I know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued...
...leaving college, and in which he gave his life. In order that none of the inspiration to be derived from a life well and fully lived, cut short by death in the undertaking of new and constructive work, may be lost, it seems well that his Alma Mater should know something of the task he was undertaking, and of which he would have been the last to have spoken...
...land of science and Industry; he had to overcome difficulties which no one had ever encountered before; he met phenomena which had never been met before and which carried with them the forces of sudden death and destruction. Only those who have similarly trod uncharted lands know the terrible obstacles of discouragement and disappointment which nature places in the way of the explorer...
...that they ever strive to know...
What caused F. E. P. '18--I have not looked him up for his sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says...