Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...white horses had to succumb to the brush of this futurist artist. Aeroplane hangars went up with astounding rapidity and French machines multiplied just as rapidly. The French control of the air during the last and vital month of preparation was one of the outstanding features of the whole thing. French planes hovered over the supply trains and bases, French planes swept across the lines into the enemy's territory, but not one German plane was visible during the month of June. It was due to their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully...
...price's the thing, no doubt. Is it a bargain? Possibly not, because the new owner could have the option of cultivating the ground and finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time...
...groups whence the scholars were to be drawn, with the exception of the United States, are now fighting a murderous war of imperialism. That the American contingent is not fighting only accents the contrast. Perhaps, before they have been long in Oxford, they, too will be in khaki. The thing has happened...
...appealed to those present. He emphasized strongly the disastrous results of indifference to our present needs and quoted the instance of the Brandenbergs to prove his statements. "You read the daily papers now with the accounts of what our boys are doing down on the border and the whole thing seems to be one continuous, serial bellyache. I don't know whether these stories are all true or not, but if even a portion of them are true, it only goes to show that even the training those boys have had isn't enough. You must go into this thing...
...Whitney '17, president of the CRIMSON, spoke of the opportunities offered by the various publications in college to know the men worth knowing in college, and to know the inside working of the University. "No matter what activity you may choose," he said, "the important thing is to do something...