Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...signal drill yesterday afternoon, followed by a fast scrimmage with team B. The team showed improvement over the work of the past week, and the work of Bond, who put over three placement kicks from the forty, forty-two, and forty-five-yard lines, respectively, was especially encouraging. The whole team played better as a unit, and two or three more scrimmages should polish off their team-work in good shape...
...offers excellent opportunities for getting in close touch with the business workings of a modern magazine. The work will consist of soliciting advertisements and getting subscriptions, with a certain amount of clerical work at the office. The competition is long but this is in its favor as the whole work is spread over a larger field and is therefore made more practical as well as lighter for the individual. From three to five candidates are usually taken on to the business staff at the close of the competition...
...true that the whole experience of this country shows that to obtain any sort of efficiency in the mass we must have for every individual freedom and the opportunity to develop initiative? Do we not believe that Pasteur's definition democracy is the correct one--democracy is that form of government which permits every individual citizen to do his best for the common good...
...York, N. Y., November 7, 1915.--The whole team came through Saturday's game in excellent condition. King sustained a slight injury to his nose, and Gilman was laid up for a few minutes with an injured ankle, but both men will be available for practice tomorrow. Harte was slightly shaken up, while Mahan came out of the hard contest having received nothing more than a "little more experience...