Word: rejoined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would cover not a multitude of sins, but good deeds. "I have cut my profit to the narrowest margin because of the war" the tradesman would say to the carpenter, who would replay that "I have doubled my efficiency because of the war," or to the manufacturer, who would rejoin that "I take special pains with my products because of the war." Man would be honest over tax schedules "because of the war," maids would break fewer dishes "because of the war," college students would work harder "because of the war," dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart...
...return on account of the war. Professor Georges Mauxion, head of the department of design in the College of Architecture and Professor O. G. Guerlac, of the French department, were both called to arms at the outbreak of the war and were forced to return to France to rejoin their regiments. A small number of undergraduates, natives of the belligerent countries, are known to be fighting with their respective armies, but on the whole it is expected that the foreign colony here will be as large this year as ever before. Only one or two cases are known of American...