Word: lived
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cleared all that up. The sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof...
...purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing and to turn the minds of the rulers and peoples who have conceived and are fostering it, toward the Right, or else to put them aside from the path of honest nations and men, to live sequestered in their ignominy. One of these two things is to be the judgment of the world against the Teutonic allies. --JOHN LUTHER LONG...
...regrettable that an ideal system of informal sports will not live at Cambridge. We are athletically spoiled by watching huge contests on whose outcome championships are at stake; we have been brought up on the idea of the importance of the Yale game and with it gone our whole system breaks down. The candidate for a team wants to get into the big game, and when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system...
...course, be closed, and the students, dismissed. But unless this is done for a considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...speak usually of our honor system. First it was a system merely. It has now become, however, a spirit pervading the place. In the present troublous times our nation is at war in order that men may live their lives according to the code of honor. In the new order of things after the war, it is the sense of honor which must prevail between man and man, nation and nation, the world over...