Word: rotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hospitality"; and son on. Anyone who takes the trouble to read this communication may quite naturally ask "What has all this to do with me? I realize that these statements are untrue and I pay no attention to them." Quite true; but the majority of people who read this rot do not class it as propaganda. Jealous of the comfort of our troops, they become incensed at the thought of unfair treatment by any persons or nations--and so the entering wedge of discord is inserted...
...late there have appeared in your paper various communications and unworthy editorial, concerning the summer military camps that were pregnant with the dry rot, which, in the form of self complacency and indifference is secretly consuming the manhood of many dabblers in "idealism...
...following officials have been appointed. All University cross-country men rot on the training table are requested to report to act as inspectors. Competitors should report at the course at 3.15 and officials at 3.45 o'clock...
...Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good red blood is not content with remaining red; it blackens before our eyes, while the banana skins rot in the middle distance, and an "unclean native smell" fills...
...partisan religions and sects, of every names and form in the whole world today, are slowly dying of dry rot as recently has affirmed a noted clergyman of one of the oldest and largest of the Christian Denominations. Nothing can save them except the cosmopolitan and truly catholic teachings of world-Religion as set forth in this volume...