Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cause that Harvard University, or the State of Massachusetts, or the First Federal Reserve District exceed or double their allotments if the Berlin and Munich and Cologne newspapers are able to print next week that the American nation as a whole, the richest nation on the face of the earth, has failed financially to support its war. If you can raise the money out of your current savings or by the sale of your unnecessary personal belongings or earn or save it before the instalment payments come due, help raise and exceed the national quota by buying another Liberty Bond...
...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...Where on earth do you think I am? To tell the honest truth, I'm not on earth at all. I am 5000 feet in the air! All alone! The engine is making such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5000 feet, so I can run this 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think that I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters...
...worthy of it anyway. My chief concern now is to get abroad, and when I get there to do my damnedest to avenge my brother's death. I won't stand for anything less than the complete conquering of the devils who let this hell on earth loose. Whatever my part is to be I intend that it shall at least be one that is felt by some German or Germans, and I have gritted my teeth to see this thing through and hang on like a bull dog until the end. I can do anything now that...
...fight this afternoon with a young French officer and managed to stay on his tail most of the time. He wasn't so good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till...