Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the out-break of the war and immediately enrolled in the South Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and was finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's ability and courage won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain...
...possibility of a diplomatic break with Germany which has existed for the past two years has suddenly become a a serious fact. Our government by submitting in the past to countless acts of violence against our citizens and national honor has tried in every conceivable manner, but in vain, to avert a rupture with the German nation. In the future our actions, whether hostile or not, will be clearly defined and will follow the strong policy inaugurated by the official dismissal of the German Ambassador...
Whether this last German note will mean diplomato break or not, is still to be settled. But one thing this crisis ought to bring home to all patriotic students in our colleges; the woeful ignorance of the national problems before this country today...
Neither the hope for peace nor the desire for war should blind us. A new crisis means an increased danger. The slightest blow on hammered rock will cause that rock to break, and how near America is to breaking only those at the head of it may know...
...feels the desire to see new lands, to break away from those places which his ancestors cleared from the wilderness, then there is no doubt but that, given a due amount of Saxon intelligence and grit, he may make good in foreign countries. But unless he has that restlessness of the blood he would do well to look at the opportunities that lie before him in his own country, where his own tongue is spoken, among people, who are in sympathy with his ideas, and whose ideas he may appreciate...