Word: looming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thorne Murphy again distinguished himself for the Blue, while Kempton, French and Welles began to loom up as potential factors on the Yale gridiron...
...major national problem these foreigners in our midst will loom in importance, as war problems fade. This task, indeed, will be the central one of reconstruction. No man knew this fact better nor preached its needs more consistently than Theodore Roosevelt. His recommendation should be our guarantee of its importance...
...overshadowed the tiny dents we have inched in the hostile line. Yet it is, we hope, an omen of future victories. If the coming millions live up to the standards of the first hundred thousands the final outcome cannot be in doubt. The German successes now need not loom too large in our minds when we gaze toward the future. Our war machine is getting under...
...face Milton Academy this afternoon is a greatly improved organization from that which was defeated by Arlington High last Saturday. The men have had regular practice on the Stadium rinks all this week and with the return of several disabled men to the squad the chances for a victory loom much brighter...
Pacifism seems to loom large in the Monthly Sanctum. Mr. McComb first tells us what it means. He dares valiantly in the short space he consumes, but he is certainly talking at cross-purposes with such agitators as Mr. Roosevelt when he can admit no alternatives between the "noble and exalted spirit of China," and what Mr. Mitchell in an editorial calls "the neurotic visions of a discredited Bernhardi." Historians might be inclined to doubt, also, if reason were the sole efficient cause by which the present harmonious arrangements were achieved "in the spheres of trade, religious beliefs and domestic...