Word: counters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Living room of the Varsity Club has been rearranged, and will be used as the general office. A counter has been built from one side to the other at which business will be transacted. On the second floor of the building is space for clerks and records, while the third floor is being utilized by the Department of Economics...
...outfits in this command have been having a fine time killing Germans. All three of them have been in it, especially one. I suppose you read about their splendid work. They killed them with picks and anything that came handy. I was out there the two days before the counter attack, and, of course, went out the minute we received the news over the phone, but things were comparatively quiet. The whole outfit volunteered to go into the trenches and a good many of them...
...visited was just receiving the first trainload of the results of the morning's battle. Box-car loads of these suffering men were handled cautiously and gently by the orderlies, and the first building they entered was the Y. M. C. A. marquees. Here they passed by the counter and were given free cocoa, bread, cheese, crackers, and cigarettes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful than coming in, after being out in the enchase for days, perhaps, cold, wet, and hungry, and being given a nice hot cup of cocoa with a word of greeting? I cannot tell you what...
...allegiance from one faction to another, former leaders return to activ3e politics, the army enthusiastically supports the most eloquent speaker,--in short, the entire tern of affairs, however definite it may have been is unrecognizable shifted. From the meager reports that come through, it can be gleaned that the counter revolution is already under way, that the Army is supporting it, that Moscow is again in the hands of the Loyalists, and Petrograd about to be. But the truly significant feature is that Kerensky. Korniloff, and Miliukoff are now fighting on the same side, subordinating their personal quarrels...
...Ludendorf and Mackensen, will inevitably regain the upper hand, Austria will revive in courage, and as a corollary, the discontented elements in the allied nations will make use of this opportunity to embarrass their governments. The immediate future seems black indeed; only constructive statesmanship of the first order can counter the discouragement and distress. But if the justice and unselfishness of our cause is sufficiently felt, then defeat should serve as a stimulus to greater sacrifices, and eventual success. To give this message, not to Italy alone, but to Germany and Austria as well, is America's mission today...