Word: shred
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college man the way of preparation should be extremely lucid. Ours is the business of acquiring all the knowledge possible--of stuffing into the thinking tank every shred of accredited information available. As university students, as mind specialists, we are the light of the world. If we fail in the attainment of understanding, upon whom is the world going to rely for brain power? There can be but one answer; it is axiomatic, in fact, an aphorism. We must not fail...
...Perhaps it has been spared out of consideration for the famous Cologne Cathedral, one of the vastest and most famous fanes of Catholic worship in Europe; and this degree of consideration is not strange on the part of the British and French, although the Germans themselves have not a shred of respect for either the sanctity or the beauty of cathedrals...
...rest of the story is to be found in the press dispatches from Russia, which tell how this able, forceful, enthusiastic international radical in the capacity of Minister of Foreign Affairs, without a shred of patriotism, with no love either for Russia or for Germany, has tried to stop the war on the east by methods which are likely to be highly disastrous to the Russian proletariat, and to prolong instead of shorten the war. Trotsky may not be pro-German, but neither is he pro-Russian. Such a leader can never build up a new Russian nation. Kerensky...
...dignified and stolidly established order of things is being torn to little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...