Word: defend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...peace. A scheme of training which is hastily planned and insufficient may prove worse than nothing. We must trust to the authorities of the nation to guard our honor. We must trust to the authorities of the University to formulate a plan whereby we shall be prepared to defend that honor...
...South does not want war. The West does not want war. And even in New England, saturated as it is with British influence, I have not yet been jostled by a young American rushing to the colors to defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags...
...Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost unnecessary if all we want is to defend our coast"? The oceans have always constituted, and always will constitute, our first line of defence; the tremendous significance of thin asset becomes quite apparent when it is remembered that the finest navy in the world could make no landing at Gallipoli and has not been able to bombard...
Slowly but surely the people of the United States are recognizing the pitiful inadequacy of our army and the utter inability of this country to defend itself against the attack of another power of similar magnitude. Evidences of such an awakening have appeared during the last two years in the success of the Plattsburg camps, the organization of the Naval training Cruise, and the sporadic efforts of the many preparedness societies. The events of last summer on the Mexican border disclosed the weakness of the system of State Militia, and focused the attention of all patriotic citizens on the great...
This December has witnessed a French Revolution of Lilliputian dimensions, with Committees of Safety, Tribunals and Robespierres appearing to defend strange principles and candidates of questionable qualifications for governing this diminutive republic of four hundred citizens. Social and political factions have sprung from superficial causes of difference hitherto unknown. Campaigning, electioneering and forming of combinations have been rife. In fact the supposedly mature, intelligent Seniors of Harvard University have descended to the low, despicable methods of a well-conducted Tammany Hall election, in order to elect twenty-two class officers...