Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when the motive is no longer effective. Hence our memories with all the feelings and emotions attached to them are constantly controlled by hidden powers; they really disappear when new motives enter the soul...
...feeling of the man in the desert who sees the longed-for oasis fade into a mirage is very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time...
...promising material, and every indication of another high-class eleven, the Crimson failed against Tufts, Brown and Yale, and just squeezed through with a victory over Princeton. The Harvard line was the weak point in the structure. On other Harvard teams, the Haughton tactics of delayed passes and hidden ball plays got results because of a strong line...
...execution of plays and the so-called hidden ball deception, Harvard is certainly more advanced, but deceptive plays are not so sure of success as a strong and powerful attack...
...Over the field we soared, and due east for B-Twelve, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four hundred metres--mounting well at 1,180 turns. The earth seemed hidden under a fine web like the Lady of Shallot wove; soft purple in the west changing to shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western...