Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...become cloudy and when I went up I had to climb through one stratum of clouds to where the target was being towed, at 1,200 metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine would skip over the cloud floor jumping the pits and cutting through or hopping over the peaks. Then when I had done my shooting a great plunge through...
...knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till the one who can make the sharpest turn succeeds in getting behind the other. Then the first one to get out of the way, may do a renversement or half turn of a vrille and the second will try to do the same thing...
...development of the instinct of self-assertion and self-advancement in the individual or in the group? I do not. It is not gushy sentimentalism or flat self-abnegation that I advocate; backsliding of the individual or unwarranted self-humiliation have no part in my theme. What I should like to see in our schools and colleges is less concentration on the purely materialistic aspects of human knowledge and understanding, more regard for the complete self-development and self-ennoblement of the individual, which can never be accomplished by slighting or ignoring those sources of inspiration that have guided...
Previous wars ended and left little trace upon the landscape of the Somme Valley. This vaster conflict, fought with a million-fold more destructive weapons, will not rely upon historians for its chronicle; like a geologic epoch, it is blasting into the countryside the ineffaceable record of its vehemence and horror...
...Wister's sketch of the late Evert Jansen Wendell, in which the great-hearted "perpetual undergraduate" is depicted wart and all. The secret of Wendell's personality was an abiding youthfulness or, to use Mr. Wister's phrase, an innocence that "never shrank from its full original stature." Like all youths he was swept ahead by enthusiasms, sometimes to the detriment of social conventions. Athletics, work with the boys of New York, club life, enlarging his theatre collection, amateur dramatics, music, his final trip to France last summer, represent but a few of the many outlets for his superabundant energy...