Word: grow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...
...individuals, France needs men. Abundant opportunity is offered to any or all of the two hundred thousand men whom Mr. Roosevelt declared had volunteered to see service at once. The Foreign Legion has done some ugly work. It has not been pampered too much with leisure in which to grow fat between its decimating battles. There is room in that historic legion for men in whom the desire for action burns so very fiercely that they may not stay to go when our troops...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...
...furthest dollar which we may spare from other and less vital needs. We may never give back to those children the happiness that they have lost, nor abate their desolation in one degree. Yet we may from our abundance spare enough to keep them from starvation, that they may grow to independence free from the stigma of pauperism. It is not charity that is asked of us. It is the payment of a small interest on a great debt. The children of brave men are due from the world opportunity to become brave men. That is the least...
Only it would be too bad if one of those nice Untersee Booten should grow rapacious for the Dutch steamer on which the Count sails, and the sinking of another liner be celebrated in Berlin. That fear beset us with respect to Count von Bernstorff. It is repeated with intensity for Count von Tarnow...