Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...down deep and ask yourself what you are doing and whether you cannot be of more service. Get into the war and back your beliefs and high sentiments with real deeds. If you ought to be in the army, get into it. If you ought to be here, make every minute count. In any case, be an American twenty-four hours of every day and learn that slackers are bred of the stuff which is satisfied with "doing...
Premier Clemenceau said, "I know the French peasants well. They ask me one thing, 'Will we win?' Assuredly, I say. 'Then we will go on,' they answer...
...Yale and Princeton 1921. Unless word to the contrary is received from Yale within the next three days, the debate will be held on May 17, the Freshman negative team meeting the Yale 1921 speakers here, while the affirmative goes to Princeton. It is possible, however, that Yale may ask that the date of the debate be changed...
...just entering upon it. Our allies have been through it all for several long years. The true sacrifice is not yet ours, but it will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...
...part of that great question, and must be solved with reference to it. We must manage some way to redirect our national energy and bring it to bear upon the purpose of the war rather than upon the multifarious purposes of peace. The first question which we must ask regarding every question of public policy, however detailed it may be, is: How will it affect the redistribution of the national energy? Will it, or will it not, enable us to mass more man power at the points where it is needed...