Word: hail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably necessary step in the growth of American freedom...
...well. But a short time ago it hurt to see the little dogged, glum crews that read the news of back, back-fighting, fighting--losing ground--French ground. Then the war seemed a very ancient interminable thing--but now! Ah, it is young with hope and confidence and faith. Hail, the French spirit that can live on faith alone for four long, losing years--to celebrate so gaily an allied push...
...zero weather was over for a year as far as this neighborhood was concerned. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of University students has its legal residence in the only Commonwealth in America, but in regard to the prophecy made by our Boston friend everyone in Cambridge claims to hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer are with us we shall be anything but reassured. We had almost been persuaded to believe that the Teutonic assertion, "Gott...
...game of war has started on Soldiers Field for fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies...
...will not make all men alike, nor will it cover by olivedrab cloth a man's individuality. But it will remove those barriers of appearance which we have to some extent erected against the tides of democracy. It would be wrong to hope that every man in uniform will hail another as a kindred spirit, to be granted his friendship and his intimacy. Yet we know that true men will see other men on a plane of equality...