Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole-hearted immediate aim, Mr. Roosevelt concluded, must be to speed up the war in every possible way and at the earliest moment to make our military strength of decisive weight in Europe. Let us remember, he reminded his auditors, that "our troops fight abroad beside the Allies now so that at some future time they may not have to fight without allies beside their own ruined homes." This carried the 1,200 diners to their feet, cheering...
...They always have done their share, they always will. But by declaring itself for suffrage, the administration has removed a feeling of irritation and discontent, and has there-by rendered American women more capable and more willing to perform those duties so essential to the success of our armies abroad. The nation has strengthened itself from within...
Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, from which John Harvard was graduated, will extend its hospitality to members of the University on military service abroad. A letter received by President Lowell from Master P. Giles of the English university, states that arrangements are being made at many of the colleges of England to provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should...
...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
...industries can successfully be transported to Europe and, more important than that, whether, when they arrive, they will be able to throw enough weight into the balance of the present deadlock to bring about a decisive victory. By spring our troops and ordnance should be ready to go abroad, by summer we should have a huge fleet of fighters with which to supply our Overseas Force, by October or November the first American drive should be on. We cannot expect an immediate advance on Berlin; but few of our troops have had their baptism of fire, and the war game...