Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel," said Professor Holmes, "that a disaster, fatal to national education, is impending and will crush it out unless steps are taken immediately to ensure its safety. This is a time when the services that can be rendered through the schools should be brought to the attention of all college...
When asked whether he did not think it might be better to send enough troops to Russia to crush decisively the Bolshevist forces, Dr. Frankfurter emphatically replied: "Crush the Bolshevists? It is impossible. And further, it is the very presence of our soldiers in Russia which gives the Bolshevists their power. The plea that they are fighting against a foreign invader serves to gain the sympathy of the people...
When Marshal Foch began demonstrating his transcendant military genius on the Western Front last summer and the whole civilized world looked to him as the one power that could crush the German machine, a few men looked ahead and wondered if America would ever have the chance to welcome this heroic figure to its shores. We found ourselves thinking of the glorious reception he would receive from a grateful people. And now Representative Julius Kahn states that Foch is making plans to visit the United States within a few months. His coming will give this nation an opportunity to show...
...valiant little Army in Northern Russia has been defeated again by the reorganized forces of the Reds. We can picture the feelings of the Allied officers and men placed up there in the Russian winter, not to win a victory and crush the forces of the Bolsheviki--the Army is obviously too small for that--but to keep fighting somehow against perilous odds that the Allies might not be accused of passively accepting anarchy...
...this modern evolution. The first remedy for restricting monopoly is public regulation. During the last decades it has entered every sphere of industrial life. Unfortunately it has not worked well, and has been a serious menace to progress. The tendency of such control is almost without exception to crush private ownership. The railroads illustrate only too well how government supervision squeezes industry until it is no longer worth while for individuals to conduct it. At such a point economic organization evolves into public ownership, as it has done in the past and as it will doubtless continue...