Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Throughout the winter the prolonged cold spell affected even the Southern camps, and flying was somewhat curtailed. Now that the warm weather has come, many more machines are in the air, and necessarily there are more accidents. As time goes on, also, more new planes are put into operation, and therefore much more flying is done. Our mortality statistics, if compared with those of the Royal Flying Corps camps in Texas and elsewhere, are very favorable, and yet these camps are not considered to be carelessly conducted...
...lighten this gloomy routine, to maintain a close and hearty interest in this body of American citizens detailed for special duty, to support them not merely with munitions of war but with those supplies in which we can put pure admiration, our gratitude and our love, is our duty-a duty which we should grasp as a privilege. Our men will be none the less warriors because we remember them with letters and gifts. They are carrying our burdens, upholding our honor-and I for one desire to express as best I can the deep personal obligation...
...delay in announcement of Cornell's rowing schedule has led to the belief that that university may not be represented this spring in intercollegiate contests. Practice rowing has continued as usual, however, and crews will be put on the river as soon as the inlet is free from...
...certain to be included in the program are the 40-yard dash, the 600-yard run, the one-mile run, the two-mile, the 40-yard low hurdles, the seven-lap run, the 20-lap run, and ten-man relay races, with each man running two laps. A shot put events is also planned, and it is more than likely that some such contest as a tug-of-war with the Radio School will be on the schedule...
...wrong thought. But one thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing and to turn the minds of the rulers and peoples who have conceived and are fostering it, toward the Right, or else to put them aside from the path of honest nations and men, to live sequestered in their ignominy. One of these two things is to be the judgment of the world against the Teutonic allies. --JOHN LUTHER LONG...