Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bitter their sacrifice,--but old harms...
...determine what kind of a world we are to live in during the next generation," said Dr. Crothers, after stating that he looked forward not to a long drawn out struggle, but to a sharp and bitter one of shorter duration. "Whether the general trend of the world after the war is good or evil depends upon the men coming back and upon those growing up, and mostly upon the latter, which means upon...
...those who have known him, which constitutes the loss. It is the unfulfilled promise, the vacant years, the deeds not done which might have been well done, the cutting short of a strong man's life. For the loss of these no vacant praise, nor deeper memory, nor most bitter grief may at all avail...
...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...
...need to call upon our boys nor our old men to defend the nation or to gain victory. The knowledge rests with us that should such bitter need arise, as we may trust it never will, they will come, not in the tumultuous desire for excitement, but in the strong desire for service, equally brave...