Word: longed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suffering from an overdose of turkey and discover that cranberries and ice cream have made us feel a little queer, we begin to realize that. Thanksgiving is all right while it lasts, but afterwards comes the reckoning. Morcover, we have another month before Christmas, and a month is a long stretch of time, especially when it happens to be December. Added to that it is annoying and highly humiliating to constantly meet privates from one's company of last summer now wearing the uniform of a captain. After telling a man to cover in file for four long months...
...scoreless tie resulting in the Camp Devens-Naval Reserve football game at Braves Field yesterday morning, the inter-service championship of the Northeast is still undetermined. Coach Haughton had not had enough time to develop sufficient team work with the Devens squad to defeat the Newport sailors, whom a long season had moulded into a well-playing team from a group of star individuals...
...band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny and how long they can keep down the surly private is hard to tell. What we want is heat and the only place to get it is in bed or in an armory; the former resort is forbidden and that leaves the armory. May it come soon...
...this icy strain, we must admit there is a good side to this winter drill. It is extremely healthy and it wakes us up. Though a sacrifice, it has to be done, as going indoors is decidedly preventive of good military manoeuvres. We want to stay outdoors as long as we possibly can; it is the same and sensible though uncomfortable solution. We have started this drill and we will carry it through, ralic or shine, warm or cold. They do it at Devens, not for an hour, but for hours at a time. They have been doing...
...ancient College, that so long hast bred...