Word: faces
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...management hopes to postpone the contest for a week or two, on account of the lack of practice among the Freshmen, due to the late start of the season. If all the negotiations now under way are carried out satisfactorily, the 1921 track and field men will face a long schedule...
That trust has not been shaken one jot. That enthusiasm has not waned, although it has become tempered and sobered. It is not that a possible defeat is staring us in the face and that it is consequently good for our national morale. Such theories may be effective with an athletic team, but they do not apply to nations. Yet it is incontrovertible that an appreciation of the real gravity of a situation is a source of strength. To carry on a good fight one must know what the measure of his antagonist is. Now for the first time...
...passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted today. It indicates a condition of the German mind which unites the nation in a dogged support of the Kaiser. Such an utterance bespeaks a unity which we must face with difficulty...
...would be difficult to imagine a situation more demoralized and subject to more conflicting forces than the existing one in Russia. The renewal of hostilities by the German forces complicates an almost hopeless chaos of internal revolution. Not content with the sowing of his propaganda in a country face to face with a great political crisis, the Prussian advances to seize those races which one by one are separating themselves from Bolshevik domination. Germany dares to take upon itself the protection of a new democracy, the Ukraine. A striking anomaly...
...dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million Americans in action this year may avail more than two millions a year from now if the Allies should lose their punch. Let the American force, small...