Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would be a sad thing and not to the credit of any of us if we allowed the sacrifice of our dead countrymen and comrades to go unremembered, and the efforts of the valued living to go unrewarded. ALFRED PUTNAM...
...conditions at Dartmouth, gleaned from his service in the business world, and in the realm of collegiate thought throughout the country, approximates the specialist to some extent, without cramping his abilities by a narrowing of his field of vision. He is bent on accomplishing the great and far-sighted thing. He would have men of higher education less trained for selfish and individualistic successes, than for their collective influence for good in the business community...
...central thing is that we have maintained the principal for which this school was founded. Fifty years ago controversies were raging within the School...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...
Probably the only thing which makes the play a valuable contribution to American drama is the clever dialogue, for several timely slaps are directed toward the present administration and its war policy. Too much emotion is exhibited too often to give any balance to the piece, and the free play of bullets falls very short of realism. The action takes place in Texas, but Texas is at least under the Constitution...