Word: growing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American casualty lists will grow longer each day. But with each new name which Americans read in that list will come added determination to fight on for the cause which is right...
...first problem for us to face is that of the war itself. We are just entering upon it. Our allies have been through it all for several long years. The true sacrifice is not yet ours, but it will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...
...have had enough of flamboyant stories of what we are going to do; the talking should come afterwards. The more our hopes violently fluctuate, the less are we inclined to believe in the ultimate hope of destruction of Prussian power, and a spirit of discouragement is likely to grow up. Let us stick to the facts of the task ahead of us, not indulge in wild dreams that take our energies off our work...
...ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
...military courses in the University. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft, Director of Schools at the cantonment, in a conference with members of the University military staff last Sunday expressed the hope that the relations between the R. O. T. C. and the officers at Devens, once begun would grow stronger as time went on, and that the cantonment and the University training corps would find it possible to continue a mutually helpful alliance...