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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELTMACHT. | 6/15/1917 | See Source »

...makes no difference whether one is of the peace party or not. Certainly these Allies are tired of the war; in fact, the whole world is tired of the war, but this is only the more reason why these Allies and the whole civilized world will battle on to defeat the probability of one other state bringing into existence a situation which they abhor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR FATIGUE | 6/9/1917 | See Source »

...interesting as a matter of passing notice, though not worth much actually, that Harvard, having joined the infantry, now wears a hat cord of blue, the color once consecrated to defeat by Mahan and Brickley and the cause of our own undoing under Black. In like manner Yale, having joined the artillery, now wears a hat cord of red, whose tone was once the battle-sign to Yale. So are the heavens altered. Berkeley held that all color is illusion. And the Army has made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAT CORDS | 6/8/1917 | See Source »

...century ago Germany's women melted their wedding rings for gold to defend their native land. Germany will do the like again, before she will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION'S STRENGTH | 6/5/1917 | See Source »

...Gettysburg, where those who died in battle lie now in state, to the obscure graves in Missouri and Kansas, where after battle men were buried as they fell, the crossed flags of a united nation float in remembrance of their sacrifice. The roses of victory and the lilies of defeat are indistinguishable in the strength of a common tradition, for where brave men meet, there all is victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEST WE FORGET | 5/29/1917 | See Source »

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