Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the much-expected offensive, the new German policy of intensive raiding attracts general attention. When, as at present, the famous shock troops are being used persistently, we may be sure that it is not for the ordinary daily attrition. Raids have been made almost continuously, and with a remarkable intensity of artillery fire and fierceness of attack. The High Command is evidently feeling out the weak spot for the great attack. They cannot hope to wear out the Allied armies by these minor tactics, they are only a prelude to greater events. A raid...
Ernest Truex, who was Very Good Eddie last season, is Gilbert this year, but he's still very good. A trifle naive and inexperienced, perhaps, but very good, nevertheless. Watching and listening to him, you can almost forget that he is only acting a part and that off-stage he has a few children of his own. What more can be said for, Mr. Truex...
...little town of Northern France, recently retaken by the French, there is a cemetery filled with German dead. Above the entrance stands a placard bearing the almost incomprehensible title, "Died for their Kaiser...
...help him in his hours of recreation is almost as essential as to see that he is properly cared for in the field. We have the right to make his burden as light as we can and he has the right to receive whatsoever we can do in this spirit. Our men cannot all come back to us, but my wish is that those who do may be greatly ennobled by their battles as we should greatly gain by the sacrifices which we are willing to make for them. -HAMLIN GARLAND...
...would be difficult to imagine a situation more demoralized and subject to more conflicting forces than the existing one in Russia. The renewal of hostilities by the German forces complicates an almost hopeless chaos of internal revolution. Not content with the sowing of his propaganda in a country face to face with a great political crisis, the Prussian advances to seize those races which one by one are separating themselves from Bolshevik domination. Germany dares to take upon itself the protection of a new democracy, the Ukraine. A striking anomaly...