Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint both, strokes lowered their cadence considerably and, matching spurt for spurt, held their relative positions until the finish line was crossed by the 1920 boat in the time of 10 minutes and 46 seconds...
...feature of the Eliot-Thayer race was the breaking of No. 5's seat in the Thayer boat at a moment when that eight was taking the lead and seemed to have a first-rate chance for a victory. This handicap proved too much for the Thayer oarsmen and their opponents rapidly increased their lead to three lengths, which they held to the finish...
...proposal as to the citizen army is strangely reminiscent of Mr. Bryan. Physical training in schools and colleges is essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...reaction against all things military produced in our minds by months of wartime service, coupled with the present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors...
...soldiers, to be used as a place for public gatherings should be in part devoted to the training of men in the art of speaking properly seems perhaps very natural. The part that the human voice has played in this great war appears very striking at a moment's thought. The drama brought cheer and esprit to men in the camps and in the field. Public speech was largely the means by which patriotism was aroused, and Liberty Loans were effected. In legislatures, in general assembly places, in the theatres, on the streets, and in the camps, the country over...