Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Wars are not won by pretty uniforms. Yet men who have pride enough in themselves to keep up the honor of the uniform they wear are apt to be the kind of men who have courage enough not to fail in the crucial hour...
...needed of this same cool, level-headed type. More training camps and more machines must be supplied. Our part is to supply men in such numbers that the slow wheels of a democratic government will be set in motion and the necessary equipment furnished. We must not fail to do our share in securing a powerful aviation corps if we hope to develop an army which will be effective on the battlefields of Europe...
...army and navy, and has asked men to sign up for the line of work they are best fitted for. Tonight, in Emerson J, Professor Johnston will further explain the different forms of military service. The many who have some particular bent, either mechanical or scientific, should not fail to hear Professor Johnston's advice which will help each one to solve his own individual problem of how best to serve his country in time...
...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
Imperialism will perish before democracy without fail and inevitably. The day of the failure of the imperialism of Germany was forewritten from that time when she made her enemy the greatest democracy of the world...