Word: come
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...order that they may prepare themselves thoroughly to understand their duties for the following day. All men of the other sections in Military Science will go over the plans in class before the exercises takes place. For the practical training which is to come twice a week on the various maneuver grounds, the regiment will be divided each time so that the men of one battalion will be engaged in repairing the Fresh Pond sector of trenches while the remaining two battalions are practising combat formations...
...this change will come to this country in due time. America will soon feel the war as it really can make itself felt. You do not yet know the awful dread with which England's homes have awaited each casualty list. When the time comes, and when the country reaches a stage where, as in England or France, every man you meet who is out of uniform immediately explains his lack of khaki without being asked; then America will be really, heartily in the war, and will truly understand the necessity...
...splendid proof and token of the perpetuity of the fighting spirit of the American people, and a token and promise of glorious days to come, when the young soldiers now in France, themselves looking back upon fifty years of honorable citizenship, their days lengthened in the light of their country's gratitude, will bear aloft on our Boston streets the same untiring standard of liberty. --Boston Transcript...
...year of war has come and gone, as we observe today the anniversary of the entrance of our country into the European conflict. It has been in many ways a hard year and in many more a great one. It has been fundamental changes in our national life which will perhaps mold the destiny of our future. It is a year of which we may well take stock, both for the satisfaction of the present and for the hope of the days which are to come...
...beginnings of training and a considerable force is already in France. Twenty billions of our national wealth have been apportioned for our Allies and for our own participation in the war. Ships have been produced as never before. Our navy has become a real force of protection. We have come to supply huge populations with our food products and national resources. And so it runs in every phase of our national life. There have been many mistakes and much confusion, but we may safely say that the achievements of our nation in the year just passed, outstrips those effected...