Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which he will consider in his address is the question as to whether the United States will be drawn into a state of actual warfare with Austria, and the possible effect of the present Italian situation on such a move. At the conclusion of the lecture Mr. Halstead will answer any questions which may come...
...units, but they preferred to remain the sons of their own country. Love of adventure was not so much the incentive as a desire to show the world that the United States was not as apathetic as it seemed. Such men could not be persuaded to neutrality as an answer to insults. Their sense or what was right called for active opposition, not passive submission...
...concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries, whining past us and then exploding with a loud report, throwing high into the air great columns of earth and smoke. Further and further we made our way up towards the front line trenches; finally at a point under almost constant...
...which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which the democratic soldier is supposed to be an intelligent part, therefore the salute is in a sense a salute...
...Illustrated swings into line with a spirited purpose. The first number is dedicated to the Class of 1921, and it will doubtless tickle the Freshmen because there is no salutatory editorial of ponderous advice on the first page. For the Illustrated now, for the first time, affords an answer to "What's in a name?" and becomes an illustrated magazine and no more...