Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot count upon this. Half a million Americans in action this year may avail more than two millions a year from now if the Allies should lose their punch. Let the American force, small as it is, play an important part in the air, on the sea, and on land during the coming campaign...
Side by side with the discouraging news from Russia are printed the results of the Congressional investigation in the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia. Unchallenged evidence points out land sold to the Government for ten to twenty times its normal price, and thousands of dollars spent to no purpose by the contractors. The responsibility rests upon certain "great American capitalists," not named...
Four-fifths of the Government's expenses have been paid for by Liberty Loans. In this way the bonds we bought last year are doing their share, and consequently part of ours, to increase the resistance to Prussianism. Commercialized America, the land of dollars, is showing Europe that her greed for money does not prevent a generous gift. To be sure, this only begins the payment of our obligations, but it is a propitious start. This actual and efficient aid can not be blotted out by any adverse criticism of our military participation...
...this is equally true of the other colleges and universities throughout the broad land. The writer has had an opportunity, owing to his Government work at the Naval Stations, to see that wherever there is a naval station there in the blue uniform and wearing it with the same spirit that they formerly wore the jersey or the canvas jacket, are our players, not alone of last year, but of the earlier periods...
...precedent which has marked a long existence. For several centuries both Greek and Latin have been the very basis of a higher education, but now, because of changing conditions, either one is sufficient. Men who made England the power she is, and those who established her reputation as a land of cultured people, have been trained by the Classics. A university career has depended for generations on the ability to use the ancient languages, for they have been a foundation rather than an end. As liberal movements have spread over the civilized world, and as the great mass of people...