Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start their football season, with Andover appearing against them. These men of 1921 have no regular work ahead of them this year. Their success means much more than Freshman victories. Let every one of them realize that he is personally sharing the burden of making future football a glorious thing at Harvard...
...cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of "making merry, for tomorrow...
...assisted the country to wage this war. The fact that he has been able, in advance, to take the opposite side on every question and proposal brought before Congress shows that he is the proud possessor of a mind of unusual perspicacity. Ordinary humans, trying to do the same thing would inevitable make a mistake sometimes and find themselves on the same side with other people, if they were forced to show their hand first. Not so the senator. For years he has never even been in doubt as to which side to take, in order to oppose everyone else...
There is one thing to remember. The leaders of a nation cannot be educated in a day. Harvard and especially the professional schools have done a great work in the past in the training of men who have shown their ability to assume the burdens of the highest responsibility...
...treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...