Word: fought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...introducing Colonel Hallowell, President Eliot spoke of two elements in the personal courage of the men who fought in the war which were especially affecting and worthy of remembrance. In the first place they went through all the squalor, wretchedness and carnage of war without having any clear vision of their country's future...
...praiseworthy. Slavery and polygamy were convictions. Such monuments as Memorial Hall commemorate the valor and heroism that maintained certain principles-justice, order and liberty. So long, then, as there is a distinction between the principles of liberty and those of slavery, may this Memorial Hall stand for those who fought for liberty and not for those who fought for slavery...
...volumes with the double columns and Thackeray's own drawings. The lecturer recalled among these the scenes of Colonel Newcombe meeting Rumum Lal at his sister-in-law's party, Sir Pit Crawley kneeling at Becky's feet, and Becky herself reading in the nursery, while the young Crawleys fought and clawed each other upon the floor...
...Surely he does not need more recognition than that which comes to him from being on a winning team. What does he want with the little, when he has the big reward? If he is a man he will know that he has done his duty, that he has fought a good fight and that will be sufficient reward...
...feel the greatest respect for those who have done their duty, who have gamely fought an up-hill fight, and though defeated, left no stone unturned by which they could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like men, grimly and silently, and go into the struggle next time with more unflagging perseverance and a deeper determination. Yet victory is better than the most honorable defeat. Do not adopt the theory that it really doesn't matter whether we win or lose, for it does matter and it rests with...