Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battle. The French and the Italians want the American Y. M. C. A. to take up its work behind their lines and it has promised to comply. The Russians need our assistance in the form of both huts and cantonments. Their Army is in many places demoralized: the poison of German propaganda is having its dire effect of which the antidote is work such as Dr. Mott discribed. The Russian soldier has many hours of leisure, he must be kept busy or he falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love...
...Institute professors have had a busy summer. The geologists have been off on the important oil searching parties, the chemists have been working on poison gases and other problems for the government, while the civil and mechanical engineers have had their hands full with the Government schools and the summer schools and the two student camps...
...product and has never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your own. Keep your minds bright, sharp, keen, and serviceable tools, and remember that the habit of handling masses of facts and seeing them as they are is the greatest part of life...
...adaptation from "El Afrancesado of Alarcon." It is placed in Padion, Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Garcia, a leading Spanish apothecary, who is suspected of sympathizing with the officers of Napoleon's Army, gives a dinner to them in his apothecary shop. He puts poison in the wine and kills both the officers and himself. The townspeople rush in at the end and then realize his devotion to his country...