Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the most interesting feature of the recent British offensive near Ypres has been the defensive power of machine guns. Reports tell of a generally steady progress, but held up at times by concrete "nests" of automatic rifles. A number of such guns, echeloned in depth, form an essential part of the defense. If, then, such pits can be made strong enough to resist all but the heaviest shells, and can be well camoufied, the resisting power would be very formidable. That the Germans have not made them powerful enough to hold back the English is evident, but they...
...House yesterday evening. F. Bela, 1 Med., the president of the club opened his speech by welcoming "everyone who can set aside nationality and take up humanity." "We know the word enemy," he said, "only to deny its significance for ourselves." The main point of his talk was to tell the members of the club that the friendships they made here would be shared by their peoples in future years...
There are your books for you. They tell you what men have been. We are a character upon the written page which the moving finger writes. And when the living year has gone its way, not much will be left of all those who acted their brave part so well, save a short memory and a thought...
...orals are regarded as a nuisance by most men. They should not be regarded as a nuisance. There are times when nothing will replace speech, spoken with the tongue. The education of no gentleman is finished without his acquiring the ability to tell a German what he is, in a language he may understand...
...that is true, then surely even the least of those many valiant thousands of unknown men who die and who will die in battle, fighting to obliteration for an unselfish cause, is worth more to the world than the singer who will arise at some future day to tell in undying words of this huge...