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Nothing quite like the Halifax disaster has ever occurred. Plenty of munition depots and munition ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores...
...huge shell breaking not more than a mile away, but which seemed to me only a few yards, and yet we kept going. We finally stopped near a dugout which up to the 7th of June was used by the Y. M. C. A., but it was finally blown to pieces. When in use it was only 400 yards away from the German lines...
...believed a muster and a parade to be synonymous, the military caste decided to allow no such ignorant individuals to hold any position of authority. The former captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
...very start of the game, T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18 took the puck the entire length of the Arena and passed it to T. H. Rice '17, who slipped it into the goal, one minute and 20 seconds after the referee's whistle had blown. The forwards forced the playing for the next five minutes with fast skating and good passing, but before they could score P. H. Smart '14 got the puck away and tied the score in six minutes and 48 seconds, dashing through the University's defence and passing back and forth down the rink...
...small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land...