Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stronger pull than had been necessary t Harvard for many years. Mr. Haughton has said that the Harvard team of 1916 deserves more credit than any other team which he has coached since 1908. It has travelled further than any other Harvard team of recent years. Yet without the sound football system which Mr. Haughton and his assistants have provided this year's team would have had very little chance of finding itself. It is the tradition of thorough training, unrelenting attention to detail and absolute concert of effort which makes Harvard's veterans invincible and even her unpromisingly green...
...hurry at all about their failing back. They seemed to cross and criss-cross in all directions, now obscuring half the sky. Gradually the mass assumed the shape of the upper portion of an elm tree, and then began to subside. Then could be heard the smashing sound of the tree branches as this mass of rock and earth fell back with the crushing force of an avalanche. Everybody ducked and plunged head first into the shelters...
...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...
...across the water in about the same proportion that they are in America. The present war is not exactly a holy war. For every man who goes in it that the civilization of the world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...
...source of our income any more than that of the politicians who are maintained out of the public treasury, or those whose ancestors amassed the fortunes on which their descendants live? How would we vote in Cambridge? We would vote for a city government calculated to give a sound administration of the city's business. Is Cambridge afraid we would vote for extravagant expenditures on public works? Thousands of day laborers who pay no more than a poll tax would vote for them too, in order to get a chance to work on them. And the public improvements are needed...