Word: dare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare to think about it or speak of it. But anyhow, as he wrote, he wanted the folks at home to light the big fire and think about him. Surely they did so; and while the fire still burned, something was happening to the boy. It was his last letter home...
...dare you, whether you win or fail...
Professor G. Lowes Dickinson, of Oxford University, would heartily agree. He finds that there are hardly more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...
...battle of the Marne, by Mr. Paulding; an editorial on Harvard men in the present war; and three book reviews. These compositions are thoughtful in conception and finished in structure. They bear out and strengthen, however, the feeling which I have already expressed, that the Monthly must dare bigger things, must be willing to commit graver faults, if it is to retain its influence over undergraduate life and ideals...
...which no one ever sought to interrupt, but he has, in doing it, lowered America in the eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten...