Word: followed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...France, which, on the side of the Allies, has borne by far the heaviest part in the war, has insisted that her young men should pursue their ordinary courses of study until they came to the age for beginning military instruction. We cannot do better than follow that example...
...Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also are of the appreciative and selected cultured...
Candidates who pass the physical examination will report at a place and time designated by the War Department. Orders to report at a mobilization point will probably follow enlistment immediately. The contingent will sail for Europe as soon as it is properly equipped...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...strikingly true of our ingenuous and eager way of preparing to make war, that we see but one thing at a time, and follow that with our whole hearts. We found we needed officers; therefore we should all go into intensive training. We found we needed food; therefore we should plough our public parks, and spade up our front lawns, and plant radishes in our window boxes...