Word: solider
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...infallible instinct of Theodore Roosevelt has given us a name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...taken as seriously as the R. O. T. C. in the United States, nevertheless, it has given hundreds of men a grounding in the first principles of military training. For years we had a certain amount of military drill, so when the war came we had a solid foundation on which to work. The college men of England furnished a great many officers for the army, and it does look now as if this class of men were going to provide the officers for the United States, because from practical experience college men seem to make the best officers. They...
...directed to the "training of future leaders in Mexico in a spirit of sacrifice and devotion to the best interests of the country" would accomplish much in helping Mexico out of her present difficulties. Educational intervention would do much more than merely help the Mexicans, it would provide a solid basis for future development by helping them to help themselves...
...great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor's conception of the part really cannot be praised too highly. In the first place, it is a role essentially suited to a great actor, not a star, but an actor. Though the play consists of more than three hours of solid conversation, Mr. Faversham's share in it is comparatively slight compared to the dreadful bulk. None the less, it is necessary that he dominate the stage three-fourths of the time. He succeeds in doing this inimitably. He presents an almost perfect picture of a gentle, super-intelligent worldling, with...
...Mathematics, including one or two questions in algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic and differential calculus...