Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork in reality adds to the luscious flavor of the bean, or whether the meat...
This sort of thing is not happening every day in aviation, but it is happening there more frequently than in any other department. We know of a generally used signal among Teuton and Allied aviators to postpone a struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible...
...essential ingredients of modern high explosives. Think of another problem, or group of problems -- those involved in the practice of gas warfare. The use of poisonous gases by the Germans came as a surprise, but the use, or abuse, of course, had to be met. The first thing to do was to develop a means of defence, and this has been done and is still being done in the construction and improvement of gas masks of various types. Hundreds of American chemists have been busily employed for many months in attacking these problems and they have already effected striking improvements...
...thing is certain: If when the world is at peace again, and intercollegiate contests are resumed, we fail to reduce the expense of coaching and training, to inculcate notions less luxurious, and to foster a better understanding of the relation between athletics and other interests of life, we shall lose one of the opportunities so dearly bought by this...
...hydrostatic pressure was increased in some way by the war psychology, and the resisting power of the neighboring warmer air decreased, but it would be hard to maintain any such thesis as that. The simple fact is that scientific and dependable records of the weather are a comparatively new thing. They extend back in this country but 44 years. And they have already gone to prove that there is no such thing as a "change of climate," for better or for worse, in New England. The weather in Boston in essentially what it was at the days of the first...