Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Turkey persuaded the United States to intervene and Russia was requested by the United States to take charge of our interests in Eastern Turkey. Russia at once sent an army within striking distance of Van. In order to make it possible to transport the cannon and supplies over the deep snow carpets were collected which could be used to form a road-bed. Seeing these warlike preparations, the massacre was postponed for the time being. On receiving news from the Kaiser that the great European war could not then be advantageously started, the regiments were disbanded and the Turks were...
...fore boding of those who have declared war is so ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly become magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
...thing to do is to enter the Naval Reserve with the intention of performing such work as the authorities may think suitable for each man according to his individual qualifications as an engineer, a navigator, a wireless operator, etc. He may be assigned to a patrol boat squadron, to deep-sea work, to foreign service or service in this country...
...west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes can be crossed, has been clearly seen. On the Austro-Italian front fighting has gone on in the midst of deep snows, avalanches, extreme cold, and violent storms. The Gallipoli campaign was carried on in the dry season and there was terrible suffering on account of lack of water...
America has her own individual civilization in the making. Yet the foundations of that civilization are laid deep in France and England. The debt we owe them may not be lightly cast aside. It is for their kind of civilization that the Allies are fighting. It is for our civilization...