Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such knowledge will not terrify us or make us clamor for early peace. Rather will it make us think, feel the edge of our sword, and go on to finish a task clearly proved necessary. No careless, light hearted American army will now enter battle. It will be a large body of serious, determined men, who will push on to the end. They will not flinch, nor will their spirit weaken because they actually know how hard is the work ahead of them. That American spirit is now meeting its supreme test, but it will take more than rod-driven...
...spite of our inability to tame the Yale Bulldog on the gridiron last fall, we need no longer feel blue. Captain Bigelow and his henchmen from the class of 1921 went out after that same animal shod with steel and armed with hickory and filled with an invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor...
When a man "lies down" in a purely academic course we feel that such laziness is his own business, but when someone does his best to skin drills and thus shirks his military duty, he becomes a liability to the nation. This Corps is a preparatory school for national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom...
...only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know the facts and that we shall be sincere. We should be very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing humbly in the wake of an Emperor nor pretending to be holier than God made us. --New York Tribune...
Prussia and the Allies are not bled white, and the offensive which she has so highly advertised is going to be a tremendous effort which will need all the power that can be mustered in order to hold the line. But after it is over we may feel assured that the War Lord and his staff will still be forced to eat their meals at Potsdam and not Versailles...