Word: graved
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...
...regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people. In our opinion the two words, Jew and Jerusalem, are closely associated. We are well aware of the promise of the British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact that Jerusalem has been wrested from Turkish rule and German domination. This...
...present them with thirty pieces of silver. Let not they who would stoop to anything wear a badge which has been the badge of honorable attainment. If the Nobel committee at Stockholm grants the requests of these Norwegian Socialists, then Nobel will have difficulty in resting in his grave. He admired honor above all things. He would be the last to reward Lenine and Trotzky with anything but hatred and force...
...Eddy began by impressing on his hearers the grave situation of the Allied cause at present. "We are now at our lowest ebb," he said. "With Russia out of it, Italy's latest catastrophe is most serious. Our own American troops in France are a mere handful; we must get our million men across next spring...
...leave the brunt of the fighting to her Allies came as a thunderbolt yesterday morning. And although by the afternoon it appeared that Russia was not making a separate peace, yet so unfounded and unjust were most of the charges made against France and England as to cast grave doubts upon Kerensky's sincerity and loyalty. He seems to forget that the war started in the East, and that Russia would long since have been crushed but for the aid given by her western Allies; time and again they have undertaken costly offensives to relieve the pressure on her frontier...