Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same unleashed wild prophecies lead to hysteria. Our people are easily stirred. Such forebodings may bring on panic in which men lose control of themselves in a blind fear of the incomprehensible. There has been not so much irrational talk in Germany about starvation as in America, although here even our very poor have enough to eat, from the present German standard...
...appreciation of an unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...
...evening Major Azan's lecture on "Characteristics of the Present War and Conditions of Modern War fare" was given in the New Lecture Hall. After a short introduction in French by Major Azan himself, Professor Merriman delivered the lecture from a written translation of Major Azan's speech. The talk dealt with the conditions existing on the various battle-fronts, the different form of offense and defense with their relative values, and the importance on equipment as well as transportation in effectively carrying out an attack...
...proportion of young men in college who are not total abstainers is perhaps rather large in relation to the average of a community. The proportion of those who talk about it is overwhelmingly large. The proportion of those who are addicted to alcohol is surprisingly minute...
...Some of My Experiences in the Trenches, and the Y. M. C. A. Hut Work in the British Army," will be the subject of Captain Jensen's talk. Of the 1,500 men originally in the Black Watch Regiment, in which Captain Jensen holds a commission, only three are now living. Captain Jensen himself has been wounded 11 times, and seriously affected by poisonous gases. He has, in fact come to this country in order to receive special treatment to rid himself of lung trouble that has been caused by these gases...