Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
...ordinary man. It is nearly time for him to take the stand of "me and Gott." After he has reached this stage he will be in a position to claim blood relationship with the Kaiser. That no doubt is the height of his ambition, and we poor ordinary humans, mere citizens of the United States, may have to bear with him until he has reached his pinnacle. But we hope...
...team, our University team, and deep down, 'way underneath, one could see the fundamental resemblance between it and its predecessors. It needs not Brickleys and Mahans to prove it. The mere fact that it went on the field and won was enough. Though the sheer physical ability of other years was lacking, the spirit was there. Long before the season is over, every graduate and undergraduate will have realized...
...Military training means training a man to use that part of him which lies above his eyebrows: he must be more than a mere mark for the enemy to shoot at; he must be able to lead movements against the enemy," said President Lowell at the military mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall last night. "Why is it worth while to men here? It is worth while to the men with previous experience because they want to make sure of as high commissions as they canget from future federal training camps to the third of which men who were...
...course of creation as real and purposeful, we must try to find the truth behind the blind wrack, we must conceive of the single life as entrusted with a purpose. If we fall of such conception, the terrors of this war are not to be approximated in the mere mortality of those who have died. Far more agonizing than the death of many million men is the death of hope. That has come when men decide it is not worth fighting for, the poor life...