Word: impelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...words that give vitality to his acts. The present war is one of the great things which the world has suffered in its history. A man who has lived so intensely as has Captain Beith speaks with a deeper knowledge, coming from unsurpassed experience, of the motives which impel nations when they...
...trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...
...still sail calmly on with no change in their lives until the trap upon which they walk is sprung and their footing completely drops from beneath them. When a man is put on probation his friends slightly deplore the fact, but seldom do they exert any moral pressure to impel the man to attend his classes and do the reasonable amount of study that is required to save...