Word: soils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...guess I told you about having two men hit on my immediate right and one on my left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...
...press of a new political union should not be startling. A curious sensation comes, however, of reading in the London Daily Mail that: "Never again will it be possible for Americans to think they have one set of interests and Europe another." The shedding of American blood on European soil welds the hemispheres, according to this view...
...colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story is light, very light, and judged by the standard of the average American magazine, altogether irreproachable. Mr. Davis' "The Lord's Prayer" is touching enough. We do not wonder that...
...first time in the history of the Stadium the Army and Navy will battle on its soil. Today two Harvard-trained teams meet; the one, Haughton-coached from Ayer, the other, trained by Leo Leary from the Navy Yard...
...meaning in the passage. Free speech is one of the bulwarks upon which our individual freedom rests. Yet free speech does not imply immoral speech, not speech with the obvious and declared desire of formenting revolution. The men and women in question, most of them born on a foreign soil, and received generously into our nation with the free rights of citizens, have used our hospitality to strike at the foundations of our laws. There may be a few to weep their martyrdom. But they will be very...