Word: sham
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unusual knowledge of the problems and new conditions to which the Freshman must adjust himself, as well as an appreciation of the plasticity of Freshman character, Dr. Fitch has aided many a bewildered yearling in discovering what things in college life are real and lasting and what things are sham. Many an upper classman remembers with gratitude Dr. Fitch's talks which, coming as they did straight from the shoulder, gave him during an uncertain and somewhat disturbing period his first conception of college in the larger sense...
...winds. If good weather prevails the aviators, six in number, will start from Springfield about 9 o'clock this morning, and will arrive over Boston between 11 and 12. In the afternoon they will fly over the city, scattering Liberty Loan literature, performing stunts, ending the exhibition with a sham battle demonstrating the methods of actual aerial combat...
...serious and decisive year." The world did not know before that the Kaiser openly admitted the gravity of his situation. In the rest of his response, it is true, the Kaiser speaks in a different vein, but seven words of truth forced their way out among sentences of sham for public consumption. The Allies have tried to make things serious the decisive for over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year, of all times, with the United States working in accord with these undaunted Allies, may their aims be realized. We have...
...world does not love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon or a cad. Yet the world is apt to be misled by clothes, by a distant or elevated manner, by reputation or another inessential sham. No more does the Army love a loafer, an egoist, a poltroon, or a cad. And in the Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false...
With close order drill mastered to a certain extent the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University has for the last few days turned its time to extended order movements and combat exercises. In the first two battalions this work has comprised skirmish drills and sham engagements between troops, under the supervision of the French officers, while in the provisional battalion the men are being trained in the elementary evolutions of the open order, and also in the principles of fire control and the management of the rifle...