Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
...personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age, and then use that education for the benefit of the army (or in civil life if the war is over). Officers high in the army...
...come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes it worth the saving...
...like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...
...today. Every student in the College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the School of Architecture, or the Bussey Institute registered therein for the first time in the academic year 1916-17 or 1917-18, who is doing full work for the whole year, or who, having entered his department after November 23, 1917, is doing full work for the time during which he is a member thereof, is required...