Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With her back to the sea, Holland's outlook before superior German strength is indeed dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing...
...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
...pick up the Kalamazoo News. No longer can we loll about in leather chairs, smoking or studying art from historic Harvard portraits. The Living Room is a changed place. Three times a day one thousand men rush in for sustenance and it seems that more than one thousand dark figures in white coats rush about providing this sustenance...
...believe in optimism and in an encouragement of the nation in its present cause. But we maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility...
...policy in order to conserve fuel by taking advantage of the extra hour of daylight in the early morning which is wasted under ordinary conditions. An hour of light in the evening will also result from this change, thus giving more time for farming and other outdoor work before dark...