Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publish the best in Harvard and Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
...breath of intolerance is felt in this opinion. Close investigation tempered by upright intentions will be brought to bear on all questions. This would eliminate much harmful criticism today...
...thee the breath of life...
...over four years, the light of dawn is once more breaking upon a world obscured by the gloom of death and suffering. The great cause for which so many have sacrificed their lives has at last been achieved. Fate has decreed that justice shall not perish. Men may now breath the full essence of life undisturbed by threatening clouds of destruction. A world of international brotherhood, in place of a world of international strife, is now in the making. With the realization of this hope, with the ominous danger of war removed once for all, men may once more strive...
...course in time it will become homelike as any habitat of needs must. But now it is a lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days of airy breathing, then like a sudden gale came the drive and our retreat. Clothes didn't come off anywaysoever for a full three weeks...