Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Until that need shall arise, it rests on those who lack two, or three or five years of the age for duty to continue to fit themselves for life that they may fill the place of those men who are taken by war, or to be ready in a more complete way to defend their country should she in a few years call again...
...Cimmerians or Parthians or Lydians saw the charge of this heavy brigade, with its respective ears flapping like the weekly wash on a windy Monday morning, lifting its trunks as does the baggage-smasher before he drops them to the concrete pavement, and heaving its battleship-gray sides for lack of breath like a boat in a stormy sea, they--the embattled Cimmerians, Lydians or Parthians--dropped their spears and bows, and departed, swiftly but not silently, in the direction of Cathay or some port further East, where the climate is good, and warriors may enjoy a long, long rest...
...resources are needed to feed it. It is well enough to awake the nation to the duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need for imagination, but rather for truth, for comprehension and justice in foretelling the future...
Some of those theological students or young ministers who are yet new to their work might find here splendid opportunity for the service of man to which they have earnestly consecrated their lives. Their intelligence and facility would amend in part their lack of technical training. So also those of the Society of Friends who hold strongly to the tenets of their faith, could help their fellow-men faithfully, and earn in an inoblivious way the right to their cordial name...
...give their services to their nation. They will give them to the very death. They are called on now to render the second and the lesser duty, in person and by influence to entrust their savings to the government for its uses, that our nation, in making war may lack gold no more than men. We can believe that the response will be generous, the result inspiring...