Word: much
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...However much we may disagree with their foreign policy we must all admit that the one was, and the other is, a man. Both Roosevelt and Clemenceau gave their entire energy whole heartedly to the interests of their own country; Clemenceau is still giving it. Both are recognized as nationalists, not wholly in spirit with the new internationalism. But this was and is due to the passionate love of each for his own people, above and beyond everything and everybody else. Their spirit represents nationalism glorified...
...While attached to the General's staff in the fall of 1917", he said, "I had the honor of seeing much of Major James Shannon, later Lieut-Col., the officer who did such splendid work with the R. O. T. C. Although he disliked staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going...
...fast game featured by much individual playing the undefeated University hockey team took a 7-2 victory from the Princeton stickmen at the Brooklyn Ice Palace last Saturday night. This game ends a season of seven straight victories for the Crimson septet and gives them the title for the series with Yale and Princeton...
...certain passages in the Bigelow Papers and the Commemoration Ode that he has most moved his country-men. His later lyrics are more subtle, weighted with thought, tinged with autumnal melancholy. He was a most fertile composer, and, like all the men of his time and group, produced too much. Yet his patriotic verse was so admirable in feeling and is still so inspiring to his readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited...
...prose, likewise, is a school of loyalty. There was much of Europe in his learning, as his memorable Dante essay shows, and the traditions of great English literature were the daily companions of his mind. He was bookish, as a bookman should be, and sometimes the very richness and whimsicality of his bookish fancies marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction...