Word: underneath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Underneath the action of the pseudo "strike breakers" who have been operating switchboards at the Cambridge exchange the past week, lie principles of great importance to the University. Three possible motives may have actuated them; that they would derive amusement from the procedure; that they would be of service in handling emergency calls, or that they believed the strike to be wrong...
...never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself...
...team, our University team, and deep down, 'way underneath, one could see the fundamental resemblance between it and its predecessors. It needs not Brickleys and Mahans to prove it. The mere fact that it went on the field and won was enough. Though the sheer physical ability of other years was lacking, the spirit was there. Long before the season is over, every graduate and undergraduate will have realized...
...purpose of replanting trees. A pair of old coins and a rusty key were unearthed, buried more than six feet below the surface of the ground. One of the coins is dated 1787. It bears the legend "Fugio," and shows a sun shining down upon a sun-dial. Underneath the dial are inscribed the words, "Mind Your Business." On the reverse side is a chain of thirteen links, surrounding a circle in which are the words, "United States--We have...
...read books, but reading newspapers is a different art. The first thing to learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written in the headlines of certain American newspapers, with the actual course of events would be an amusing, though profitless, occupation. Second, it is impossible to understand the progress of a campaign without a map of the field of operations. Third, it must...