Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...everlasting spirit of youth, which in nations as in men leads to the accomplishment of stirring deeds, and the overleaping of the slow ways of commonsense. But in this war, which is one without romance and without chivalry, we have no resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...
...attention of all cadets is called to the fact that every official notice is duly posted upon the bulletin boards of the Department of Military Science and Tactics in the basement of University Hall, south entrance, which show all assignments and details, the schedule of training, etc., and in consequence there is no excuse for cadets failing to inform themselves of the current instructions. Further information can be obtained by applying at the Headquarters Office...
...their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan of $200,000,000. The only way, it is said, this country can show that it is fully in the war is by greatly oversubscribing to the Liberty Loan, and establishing a record ratio of bond purchasers...
They are the straws at which drowning men clutch in oblivion to their other and lesser possessions. They are the straws that show which way the wind blows. They are the straws which people refuse to give when in a careless mood. The straw hat is the honor of adolescence, the grace of youth, the distinction of manhood, and the folly...
...same means uphold the honor of the press? Initialled pipes, and warm, though honorable, sweaters, with all those other external marks of glory in which the college man is supposed to revel, are here denied the winner for public display. On straw hats alone might men show they had been the doors of great deeds...