Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some way to salute that flag?" a feminine voice was heard to ask, somewhere amid the shoulders round about...
...need for this broadening influence comes, not while the man is at college, but after he has graduated and gone into the world of business. Here he is extremely likely to find that while he may be far more conversant with the literary style of the Victorian period, he is not nearly so well fitted for the tasks ahead of him as the non-college-bred...
...become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing in the future can ever erase...
...England is still able to support such a tremendous expenditure, this country should find no difficulty to fulfilling its obligations towards this and succeeding Liberty Loans, and towards any added taxation that may be imposed. The first years of the war, which were for England times of economic difficulties, were for the United States times of unprecedented prosperity...