Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been recorded in an old saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...whole in intimate connection with actual warfare. Now, however, drill officers have appeared who have been themselves participants in the battles of France and Flanders. With these officers marching and drilling with us here in the Square, Harvard can no longer consider herself removed from the real conflict. To some this may come as a shock, but to all it will be an inspiration...
...next three months' instruction in the same light. When once accepted by the commanding officer of one of these camps, a man agrees to report at any camp signified and to accept any commission in the new army which is to be formed in the fall. The present conflict will not be decided in a short month or two. The young men of this country should make an immediate resolve to give themselves unreservedly to the service of the cause that their Government has championed until the enemy of human rights and freedom is convinced of its error. Since...
...reply to an inquiry as to the probable effect of this action upon the question of governmental ownership and operation of the railroads, Mr. Willard said that it was a remarkable manifestation of the patriotism of the railroads that all lines which generally conflict among themselves should so promptly subordinate their individual and competitive interests in order to advance the general welfare of the country, and that if the committee in charge of the railroads takes hold of the situation as promptly as he thinks it will, the result will be to put off for a generation any serious question...
When our nation first aligned itself with those Powers who are fighting the most awful was in the dark history of the world the demand was born that we forego all of out former modes of existence and devote ourselves entirely to preparation for conflict. Great nations cannot live by war alone. The European people have already discovered that truth, and as many as possible are striving to keep alive some shadow of their former gaiety. It is only an apparent paradox that the sight of a movie of Chaplin the night before going into battle may make brave soldiers...