Word: warms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...keenest sympathy, with the assurance that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will go to the limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before set of sun. Boston Transcript...
...sure that Sherman's definition of war was made in winter time. Then we have all terrors and hardships without pleasures; we freeze as though we were in Russia, yet we have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony...
...done, as going indoors is decidedly preventive of good military manoeuvres. We want to stay outdoors as long as we possibly can; it is the same and sensible though uncomfortable solution. We have started this drill and we will carry it through, ralic or shine, warm or cold. They do it at Devens, not for an hour, but for hours at a time. They have been doing it in Europe for three years, and we will be doing it over there with them as soon...
...charge of each Y. M. C. A. hut, aided by several volunteer workers, while here we have five men in charge of each one. This winter the heating of our Y. M. C. A. huts alone will cost $700,000, but they will furnish the only warm spot for the men in the trenches, the only dry, lighted spot where the soldier can read or write, and where everyone is welcome. Above all the Y. M. C. A. is the greatest single influence for safe-guarding the morals of our troops...
...there one "H" man who did not encircle his straw with the ribbon of his accomplishment, one newspaper man who did not by the same means uphold the honor of the press? Initialled pipes, and warm, though honorable, sweaters, with all those other external marks of glory in which the college man is supposed to revel, are here denied the winner for public display. On straw hats alone might men show they had been the doors of great deeds...