Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...determine. In point of territory conquered it has been the most significant movement of the latter years of the war. An Allied gain of equal importance would have been heralded as a great victory. There is, therefore, no discounting the fact that the Allies have suffered a serious set-back. Upon the other side, however, the Allied line has remained intact, retreating only before superior numbers and inflicting tremendous losses upon the enemy. If this war, even after the Russian collapse, is a war of attrition, the Allies have gained rather than lost. The importance the spring drive...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...
...only by the bodies of men, the will power of men, the exalted spirit of men. The battle may be lost for lack of other things. It cannot be won without men. When the enemy is stopped, as he must and will be stopped, as he must be driven back whence he came, overwhelmed and crushed. That will require more men--men by companies, by battalions, by regiments, by divisions, by armies. The victory for humanity and righteousness will be won by man power, or it will not--But the converse is unthinkable...
...half million men in service and in training when the present year of the world's travail ends. We ought to have twice as many. The more men we give the quicker the task will be done. The more men we send, the more will come back safe and sound. The way to save American lives is to offer American lives with prodigal hands...
...best limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half...