Word: yes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
...opinion might even be ventured that the Professor's advice had already been obtained upon this salient point, and that he had prescribed a formula for the mixture to be called scrambled eggs, differing but slightly from his staged elements of fats and sugar. There should be sunlight,--yes, because the resulting product is yellow--and water, too. It is hard, though, to believe in the preparation. Without it, then, the recipe might read something like this...
...pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily, sir, the fact that you have so thoughtfully dealt me a C, C plus, B minus...
...have been an indefinite duration of bloodshed and devastation through the whole extent of the Isthmus. It was a time to act and not to theorize. As the late President said so cogently himself--"I had to act quickly and I did--and we are now building the canal." Yes, and today that greatest of engineering feats is a fait accompli. This almost insuperable accomplishment is one of the great monuments of President Roosevelt's Administration and one of the least things we can do in his memory is to give the great waterway his great name...
...which we crossed on the 22nd, pushing on about five miles in one day, then held for another day, waiting for the French on our right to catch up; then back to support for a few days; and back into it again on the Vesle for 10 days more. Yes, I think that's a pretty good record for a regiment not thirteen months old, and in their first fight, too--a pretty good record and one we're all proud of, too. But I mustn't blow our horn too loud--you'll think the old fighting 38th...