Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Determining the fate of the surrendered German and Austrian fleets is one of the first practical questions to be decided by the Allies. To destroy them will be the same as admitting the impossibility of adjusting international affairs amicably. To distribute them according to the will of an international committee will give a proof to the world that a new friendly spirit exists between nations...
...whole," he continued, "the sentiment of England toward the American troops was only one of whole-souled praise. They overestimated, if anything, the German influence in America and entirely excused our slowness in entering the war on that ground; indeed they were surprised that we got in as well as we did. The pet joke of the Canadians was that they had to kill the Boche to keep the Americans from murdering...
Captain Gregg has been serving with the Harvard Surgical Unit since November, 1917. He left the Massachusetts General Hospital in October of that year and was with the Unit in Base Hospital No. 22, at the time of the great German drive in the spring of 1918, when, as he said, "the Unit worked all day and all night for months." In August, 1918, he was sent to Casualty Clearing Stations, 10, 8, and 46, where he served with the Canadian troops at Remy, Arras, Turquoing, and Doullens...
...would certainly have been a shameful thing if the United States had failed in resisting the encroachments of the German Empire upon its national rights, and it would have been a sand thing for humanity if through a narrow passion for the preservation of our own comfort we had let France fall to her destruction before the onslaught of the Hun. It would be an almost equally shameful thing if now, after all the sacrifices which have been made and which have been accentuated through lack of timely preparation, we should be lulled to sleep by sweet sounding pleas...
...Fogg Art Museum announces that on Tuesday afternoon it will open an exhibition of seventy original drawings. Examples have been gathered together of the English, American, German, French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and Italian schools. No attempt has been made at historical completeness, the sole purpose being to bring together significant examples of draughtsman, ship, irrespective of time or place of production...