Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...latest push of the Allied arms against the German lines is chronicled as the greatest victory in this war, in which all victories have been rather a negation of defeat than success. Some men may be led to the early belief that the power of the enemy is crumbling, and that our gathering armies may not be in at the final dissolution...
...everyone enlists, our civilian army will be unconquerable; the success of the battle is already assumed. But if many hang back, if there are skulkers and slinkers, then our courageous army is threatened with defeat, and our cause with disaster...
There have been wars before, and brave men have died before. There has been disaster for those who fought, and anguish for those who remained. There has been defeat, and victory which is sometimes worth less than defeat...
...will be a great deal of consolation for many hundreds of men on the battle-fields and the battle seas of Europe, to know that there are eleven good men and true, wearing the crimson jersey and pushing the muddy ball down the long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance...
...long been past; and the organizers of this meeting are well aware of it. The time for sitting down and working on national problems is with us at this hour. The war with Germany is a grave problem. It was thought three years ago that the Allies could defeat Germany by starving her or through some other ingenious means. The thinking men now know that the Teuton is to be whipped only in a thoroughly military way, and the United States must contribute her share, and it shall be a great one, to that military victory...