Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conditions in Armenia today are worse than ever before, and there is no relief in sight unless the United States will help us. Trains of supplies that have recently been sent to Armenia have been captured by Turkish forces, with the result that Armenia is starving and helpless. You may not believe it, but the Turks are now forcing the youth of Armenia into the Turkish army and are giving them a single alternative--that of being hung...
...have for all time stood as a barrier between the Moslem empire and Christianity. Our sufferings have been to save the ideals of civilization, and the world cannot fail to aid us now that we stand helpless and alone. As to Turkey, if the United States wishes to help that criminal government, then we must look elsewhere for support. Of all the countries in the world, Turkey is most barbarous, most inhuman...
...doesn't hit it, in his title. Who are the average Americans? Are they the men of the A. E. F., always ready to work twenty-five hours a day; to give their lives up to prove their Americanism; with a sense of team play, a sense of help the other fellow and get there, never surpassed; with a resourcefulness that overcame the impossible and a confidence that was streaked with fanaticism? Is it these men, the men of the A. E. F., or is it their returned shades, clamoring for less and ever less work, for more, and ever...
...create pressure under its wings and would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
...civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship in our domestic problems and foreign relations...