Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where are our officers coming from? Secretary Baker who surely ought to be in a place to know answers this query plainly in his letter to President Lowell. They are coming from just such groups of men as that which has been training here for many months. The finishing touches which a regular training will put on them is bound to produce the kind of officer our country...
...named by a hyphenated title, as the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Austro-Servian, because the nationalities which take part in it are too large, too many, and too intricate. It may not be named after one man, as the Napoleonic wars; for we know now that this is not the war of one man, but rather the war of a nation. It may not be named according to its duration, as the Seven Years, the Thirty Years, the Hundred Years Wars, because we have no accurate fore-shadowing of the time which will elapse before our victory will...
This we may know, that future generations, looking back on the second decade of the twentieth century, will have no difficulty in denoting by word this war, the agonizing, the terrible, and the sublime...
...want them to be numerous," he concluded, "because I know all of them will gain by contact with your energy and practical sense, your firm ideals, pure morals, and elastic liberty...
...knew the purpose of existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds...