Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder...
...21st of December had been demobilized. The percentage, therefore, of those who have lost their lives in service is about four. This percentage is practically identical with the percentage of all men who fell who were members of the expeditionary force. This total is reported at the present moment to be about 73,000. Of this number, almost 50,000 died in action from wounds in battle, 20,000 of disease, and between 3,000 and 4,000 died from other causes...
...should forever commemorate the heroism of the university's sons. In view of the fact, however, that the money necessary and incident to the erection of such a monument would have to be funds diverted from courses where they are needed for educational purposes, this plan was for the moment laid aside, and consideration given to other aspects of the question. After a long period of discussion it was decided that the most fitting place possible for the memorial is within the walls of old Nassau, which is already rich in historical associations. The plan, then, in general calls...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...
...main thing, at the moment, is to send a copy of the Lampoon to every Transcript subscriber...