Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...least 250 Seniors will be in Cambridge for the Commencement exercises, a much larger number than had heretofore been expected. The Committee therefore plans a reunion on that occasion, as the class has been widely scattered during the past year, and will not likely have another opportunity to come together until after...
Happy-go-lucky Americanism always has been speculative, but seldom a security investor. Here and there is the home owner. Overtopping him by a vast majority has been the renting wage-worker, the spender, the taker of chances and the come-easy-go-easy type of citizen. In a land of abundance, frugality and thrift have held their places only spasmodically and among the minority...
...Union and steadfastness,--those today must be the watchwords of the Allies. We have to hold out against the whisperings of pessimism. Clouds of blood and horror come, but they will pass away and the sun of victory will shine through. This is not an ordinary war; it is a holy war against treason, corruption and the power of evil...
These words gave free traders a thrill of delight. But the party of privileged trade-preventers, masquerading as "protectionists," thought that the President was uttering a platitude, and that nothing would come of it. But the President is not of that class; on January 8, addressing Congress, he proposed "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers...