Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure, her half-veiled face and drooping posture expressive of great sorrow. She bears in one hand a broken sword while her arm is held by two soldiers. The third female figure stands near the center of the panel, in a pose of deflant encouragement...
Only in this way can peace be re-established and the Christian civilization in the territories that for so long have passed through fire and sword, be saved and strengthened to the interest of humanity...
...returning to Europe; nor will it be able to secure the safety of the non-Turkish minority in Asia Minor which, according to the opinion of eye witnesses like Dr. Ward, Professor Harlow and other Americans, unless protected from the outside, will be unable to escape death by the sword or by expatriation. The Conference is similarly bound to fail in the matter of the Straits and Constantinople and also in the matter of establishing a home for the Armenian nation, a question which has been regarded as a matter of honor for the United States...
...avoiding the torpedoes of the enemy. He has been inclined to use Alexander's method of untying a knot, caring little whether he smote a little to the right or left of the true center as long as the entanglement was loosened. Perhaps the two-edged Wish sword is dulled from smiting; or perhaps the rope today is stronger than usual...
Honorable mention in the George B. Sohier Competition for the best thesis presented by a candidate for Honors in English and Modern Literature was awarded to Burke Boyce '22 of New York, N. Y., for his thesis "The Inheritance of the Sword Play in the Modern English and American Drama"; no prizes were awarded...