Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Miss Wyman and Mr. Brockway, who have visited the Kentucky mountain region for the purpose of becoming familiar with its folk songs, gathered their ballads direct from the people themselves, and have reproduced them true to the life with all of the rough and simple mountain spirit. Their collection of ballads was published in 1916, entitled "Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains...
...true that Germany has not realized her boasts to sink a million tons a month and starve England in half a year. Nevertheless we must not shut our eyes to the fact that her work has been dangerous, and will become fatal if great strides are not taken in ship-building...
...America must make a mighty effort,--and make it in force this year. The policy of another year's stalling before a grand Allied offensive in 1919 is dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million...
...True to the general policy of colleges at the present time, Yale has taken one more step towards a complete military regime. She already has an extensive course in military training and now proposes to add to this at the expense of the regular college work...
...Industrial Department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation that a wise decision as to their fitness for work in the shipyards could be reached by most mechanics without more adequate information than could be offered to them through the employment offices and other ordinary sources of information. So true has it been that ship-building has been a mysterious art that little or nothing of value to the lay reader has been published regarding the operations in ship-building, or of the conditions which must be confronted by those who engage...