Word: cataclysms
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...historian of tomorrow. Already the earlier "war posters" of England and France have acquired a remarkable interest, have achieved the dignity of historical evidence regarding the feeling at the outbreak of war; and one can imagine the vividness with which they will reconstruct the emotions behind the cataclysm for future generations...
...present war occasioned a campaign unparalleled in this country in time of peace for increasing our military strength. The European cataclysm should arouse all thinking men to an intense desire to contribute somewhat, no matter how little, for the keeping of both our own nation and the world from another such disaster. But the paramount lesson of this war is not the need of attempting to insure for victory in the event of war; we must insure against war itself. The road to be travelled is long; complete success must depend on the development of international law and political unity...
...afford to ignore the Conscience of the community and to ride rough-shod over its supplications and protests. It is not a bit afraid of numbers if they lack discipline and leadership and ignores them until intoxicated with success it oversteps the limits of prudence and precipitates the cataclysm...
...time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime, and became the senior editor of the Wreckord...