Word: figment
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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...your editorial comment this morning on a communication which challenges the motives of "preparedness," you say that it is "inconceivable how anyone can charge that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination...
...inconceivable, at this time, with all Europe locked in a death struggle, how any one can charge--as a pacifist does in another column--that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination. According to expert opinion, the present conflict will be over in two years and possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well...