Word: fate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division...
...very commonly stated,' they said, that the Chinese have no patriotism and are quite indifferent as to the fate of one of their own provinces, even the sacred province of Shantung. For in Shantung, the Holy Land of China, are the birthplaces of Confucius and Menshious, the two greatest men in many respects China has ever produced...
...this state of tangled events relative to the fate of the peace treaty and the entry of the United States into the League of Nations, the opinion of Mr. Courtney Crocker, an eminent member of the Boston Bar, as expressed in an interview yesterday, is of interest in clearing the matter...
...treaty and the Covenant for the League of Nations has been repudiated by the Senate, it is returned to President Wilson, and, as he is chief mover of the document, it is inconceivable that he will not resubmit it to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in whose hands the fate of the treaty really lies in the course of the next few months. However, before Wilson resubmits the pact, it is only logical that he announce a policy of compromise liberal enough to assure the measure some chance of success. But once in the hands of the committee, there...
...football game between Harvard and some far-western team at Pasadena during the Christmas holidays would be of the greatest advantage in every conceivable way for the University. The Athletic Committee and the Faculty on whose decision, the fate of the proposed trip rests must consider these same advantages carefully, and not allow the traditional conservative policy of Harvard to influence too much their final decision...