Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dwelt in our midst a body of men of whom we all are proud. For four months we have listened to the bugle calls in sombre Holyoke and seen two hundred men stand eternally at attention in front of Widener. We have cheerfully journeyed to Boston to the sound of their "taps" and gone to bed as "reveille" was blown. As we left Cambridge for vacations we saw these cadets trudge by and as we came back they were still trudging. They seemed automatons endlessly marching from class to drill and back again; and, watching them we have wondered...
What we suggest is that the American people be left alone to hate or not to hate exactly as their individual consciences and hearts decide. Hate is destructive, a terrible thing to arouse. But there are times when it is a sound instinct of self-preservation--as sound as the instinct to fight. Just whom we shall hate (if we are impelled to hate at all), whether only the Kaiser, or only the Junkers, or the whole German nation, is equally a matter for individual thrashing out. The only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know...
...True to their expectation, promptly at the appointed time the Boche, or as they call the enemy in England, the Hun, put in his appearance. But all we or anybody else in the theatre knew about it was the noise of the anti-aircraft guns. From the sound the stories
...hardships without pleasures; we freeze as though we were in Russia, yet we have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny and how long they can keep down...
...evident (proof by the cover) that Secretary Baker is pleased with all he views. It doesn't sound correct but look in the opposite direction from that which President Lowell is pointing (pages 13, 14, 15) and it is possible to see what the Secretary and President Lowell are reviewing...