Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young men have a sacred heirloom, in the blood shed and treasure spent in your country's defence. Do not fall to abide by it. It is for you to make your country great and happy. Your boys rose like one man for this country, just as ours did. You and we entered the war for the principle of idealism; and came out of it without grievances and without possessions. These facts form a common bond between us. Among you are many Italian students and I hope that in the future American students will come to Italy in increasing numbers...
...which has existed since last October was extended to February first. Almost as complicated is the election problem. Although the votes were cast in early November nobody knows who is to be the next President. There is much fraud and violence; the courts do not function; blood has been shed; and the lack of credit has disrupted trade completely. Help is certainly needed...
...Harvard's one representative publication is dead, if the self confessed inaugurator of the Endowment Fund has gone to its reward, if the banner bearer of our literary legions has fallen in the attack, surely we who have tears may prepare to shed them. Unfortunately there have been things in the life of the Magazine which became it more than the leaving of it, for the last number, however significant it may be as death-bed jesting, is not one we shall remember pleasantly or long. Two brief and jocular messages of farewell, the conventional allusions to the Advocate, Lampoon...
...turned from that bulwark of New England tradition-the Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...