Word: thick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lonely golf-courses, far from the ear of mortal man, has even himself been rocked by unholy glee. The Glee Club, too, is reported to be in fighting trim, and straining at the leash for the evening's operations on the moonlit steps of Widener. Spreads will be spread thick in every nook and cranny of the Yard, and many will be the rows and festoons of Japanese lanterns, which will extend the joys of the holiday far into the night. Even the weather man is on our side, an occasion rare in old New England. Surely this will...
...Parisian journalist who has been right in the thick of it since the war started is bound to be interesting. The French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed...
...military plans are coming thick and fast these days. On the heels of the University's announcement of a summer camp, the War Department has brought before the General Staff a plan by which all college R. O. T. C. men would spend a month as privates in the National Army. In its present form this plan would not have to conflict with the summer camp of the college R. O. T. C.'s as the men would be sent to the cantonments only from June 1 to July 1. The University's plans, at any rate, would...
...training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. From the time they left their train at the South Station until the entered the Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue, the Frenchmen passed between two lines of cheering men and women; in places the crowds were so thick that it was an impossibility to move along the sidewalks...
...same arguments with the same proof to the same conclusion are adduced. Our professors are always called unapproachable, and the undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...