Word: blood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...London press of a new political union should not be startling. A curious sensation comes, however, of reading in the London Daily Mail that: "Never again will it be possible for Americans to think they have one set of interests and Europe another." The shedding of American blood on European soil welds the hemispheres, according to this view...
...mould or mar a blood-bought heritage...
...typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of 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...
...show their appreciation for democracy by openly fighting for autocracy. Until, worn out by their excesses, the people react and demand a conservative, stable government, there is no hope for the Allies from Russia, and judging from past revolutions that period will be long. Nations have seen years of blood before the new and better era dawned...
...Haven and meet them in mortal combat, say with blank cartridges at fifty yards or even with wooden bayonets at a shorter distance. Yet with so many Yale men up here last summer, there has grown up a certain comradeship between the Universities. We thirst no longer for their blood. The result is the idea of a joint drill...