Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...earth are about to be ushered in, or that the old hell and the old world are to remain, we must see that the spirit of revolution is loose. This spirit will either lead us to make some definite steps in progress, or cause us to run down a steep place into the sea. It is not to be assumed that every change is necessarily for the better. Nations have gone wrong almost as frequently as they have gone right in the past, and will probably continue to make mistakes in the future...
...Distinguished Service Cross was awarded posthumously to Lieutenant Gardner for "extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, October 3, 1918." While leading his company up a steep slope in the face of machine gun fire, he displayed the highest courage, and was killed before he saw his objective fulfilled...
...west changing to shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal going through it must be M--. Right beside the capote...
...While thus engaged "Trun-un-ng-tsss" --a black puff of smoke appeared behind my tail and I had the impression of having a piece of iron hiss by. "Must have got my range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder...
...design of James Hicks Stone, Master in Architecture 1915, of Fayetteville, Ark., was placed second and was highly commended. The subject for the competition this year was "A Monument to the Unknown Dead in a Great War," to be placed on the banks of a river against a steep hill. The jury consisted of Dr. Charles Allerton Coolidge '81 and Guy Lowell '92, acting with the instructors in the School...