Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ruthless spiral...
...loss of three of our graduates that the blow comes most heavily upon us. None of them went lightly away: they were not looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...
...soon vanished, the lesson remained. For every student who was good for anything felt, upon reflection, that the criticism was wise and just, that its form was inevitable, and--above all things-- that the spirit that prompted it was sincere and kind, and he soon found that the seemingly ruthless critic was as quick to appreciate merit as to uncover faults or to expose pretentious emptiness...