Word: thin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...need the falling-off be so great as it is in the last Advocate? It seems to me the weakest Advocate that I have been teaching here at Harvard. Not only has it an unusual number of technical errors and of lapses in artistic taste, but its substance is thin. Of the 15 pieces in this number--an editorial article, a literary criticism, a narrative of the French front, five pieces of prose fiction and seven "poems"--only one poem, "Ode to the East Wind," by Mr. C. La Farge, shows at once sincerity and artistic feeling; and even this...
...escape the pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year period; even the movie palaces will have to leave the hero hanging over a canyon edge on a thin rope, if he is so inconsiderate as to be in that position, at the tenth stroke of the clock...
...embarrass particular people or the take political revenge on anyone. Consequently we are surprised that so much flippant hinting and so many sly finger-pointings should have appeared in the American press. We are glad that the investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes well nigh impossible where narrow men lies in wait to pull down others who are serving, because these...
...given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which the democratic soldier is supposed to be an intelligent part, therefore the salute is in a sense a salute to one's self. The salute to the hat cord of the second lieutenant, the thin bar of the first lieutenant, is a salute to the principle of order, of discipline, of organized effort. It is therefore answered by the superior rank. Neither the private who salutes nor the major general who returns the salute has lowered himself a hair breadth, socially or any other...
...parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...