Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli, why may we not put into practice the sound policy embodied in the ill-fated McLemore Resolution, tabled, contrary to the best conviction of the majority of our Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus warning our citizens off belligerent vessels our Government would be acting not only in conformity to the practice of Sweden during this war, but also in harmony with the precedent established by Great Britain herself during the Russo-Japanese war, when the Admiralty disavowed responsibility...
...drawings should be distinct in order that the reproduction may be clear. Designs should be done in black India ink on white paper and should be four and one-half inches by seven and one-half inches in size. Every design must bear the following words...
...regrettable that among civilized nations warfare is the only means of protecting national rights and of preserving national honor, but there is no other, and if there be a true cause, we have no choice but to fight. But throughout a war men of the higher patriotism must bear always in mind that if in the future means can be devised to maintain our rights by reason rather than by might, by civilized methods than by barbaric, in a man's way than in a child's, then the older methods must be substituted by the new. G. R. WALKER...
...secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come we must never for a moment forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison with the life of the country, and ever bear in mind the words of Bacon that "the chief duties of life are more Important than life itself." There can be no higher duty than to serve the country to the utmost of our ability when the hour of stress and trial is upon...
...accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important of which have discarded voluntary service as inefficient and unsuccessful. By adopting universal service we can not only add weight to a proposal of world peace if we decide to make one, but can also do our part toward insuring...