Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...strange to many men that the President continues to mark a definite line between the German government and the German people, as though that powerful people were burdened like any group of serfs with a government which held them in close subjugation. Some months ago we could blithely believe that, and pity those seventy millions who were bound so harshly by Junkertum to the wheel of war. But the history of the world as man constitutes it shows that a like view is fallacious. No cabal of autocratic rulers could have forced a nation, either by lies or threats...
...like impulse is admirable, and true to that everlasting spirit of youth, which in nations as in men leads to the accomplishment of stirring deeds, and the overleaping of the slow ways of commonsense. But in this war, which is one without romance and without chivalry, we have no resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...
...Department has but few dirigibles in commission, none of which are of the rigid type, like the Zeppelins. The indications are, however, that the number will soon be greatly increased...
...dollars will be charged. This course, like that on Military Stores Keeping, is open to not more than 100 men. Application blanks which may be secured from University 17 must be filled out and returned to that address by noon Friday, June...