Word: untold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Courage, alertness of mind, strength of body, staying power, loyal devotion-nobody doubts these qualities in some athlete who makes the great adventure, wins prestige for his college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the great game. But I've often asked myself whether it ever occurs to the athlete to think that it is precisely these qualities-in a word, downright sand- that go to the making of the great scholar...
...missionary makes life easier where it is hardest. It may be that he is a physician in a country like India, which has fewer doctors than the city of New York. In this capacity he establishes hospitals that save thousands of deaths every year and extinguishes plagues that produce untold tragedy. Or he may be an economist, educator or business man who works to make living conditions better in countries where people have difficulty in finding the wherewithal to live. The spirit of modern missions is one of service and reconstruction, not of dogmatism. The true missionary of today...
...thought Perhaps the same interest, the same initiative and creative energy which called Beaune University so miraculously into being, could perform equally great deeds, if employed in connection with many of the older educational institutions at home. At least the creation of Beaune, involving as it must have done untold adaptability and the meeting of new educational problems in manifold new ways, augurs well for the future development of many widely separated American schools and colleges, when those who have created and attended Beaune University return. But may not American educators and scholars profit by their example, even before their...
...hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples
...Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick...