Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tradition and power which great men have built and left, stand half abashed before their own arrogance and their own indifference to the past, remembering that all they enjoy of liberty and power has been earned by the blood of those who held liberty and power above the poor boon of existence. We cannot be untrue to those who have given so much. We cannot leave a lesser inheritance to the future than we have received from the past...
...moods -- to see those who in the more artificial and constrained social order of the college would never have occasion to meet, and would never form an intimacy should they meet, working together on a just and natural plane of parity. The distinctions of class, of race, of money, poor and trivial as they are, have vanished...
...saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...
...been recorded in an old saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...education in South America and here," said Professor Husbands, "is that in our country the government controls all educational institutions. There are no private schools; everything is under one head. Text-books and all supplies are furnished by the government. This is, of course, of great advantage to the poor...