Word: nests
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blue cloudless sky, through which the sun sailed merrily on, and through which, also, a flock of Boche airplanes soared and wheeled, directing the batteries on our poor tired devils, dropping bombs and spitting machine gun bullets. Then, about 4 in the afternoon we ran into a machine gun nest which wouldn't give in. One company tried to smash it, failed and fell back. We took up the job. We reduced its fire and charged and were thrown back, and then, while trying to reform the line, some great ton of steel lit on my head and down...
...least importantly, I have been put in a false light. Not the "Harvard Illustrated," but several daily newspapers have printed such a jumble of statement and misstatement that their readers will hardly avoid the conclusion that I, when about to withdraw from Harvard, have proceeded to "foul the nest". Such an Insinuation is not less than monstrous. I am about to leave Harvard entirely of my own motion, against the most cordial and friendly remonstrances of President Lowell and of my colleagues, and for reason many of which have no remotest connection with this or with any other institution...
...interesting collection of gold coins has recently been received by the Widener Library from the executors of the estate of the late George Willet Van Nest '74. The collection is a representative one of the gold coins of all nations and consists of 220 pieces, their face value being about...
...contributions in verse outnumber those in prose. Indeed the issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle...
...noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads out in the distance...