Word: lent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Germany. With no territorial ambition, we have entered a desperate struggle, merely in defense of freedom and neutral rights. Latin America, emotional, idealistic, and ever ready to respond to chivalrous action, has followed suit, and already a goodly number of her states have severed relations with Germany and lent their moral support to the Allies. A great advance has been made in the feeling of Pan-American unity, which with tact and prudence on the part of our diplomats, should lead to an understanding and friendship of lasting benefit to both continents...
Under the command of Captains Canfield and Fuller, 40 volunteers went out to Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon and did some repairing to the trenches. Much work was impossible because the trenches were so flooded with water that the pumps lent by the Wentworth Institute were in most places inadequate. Today, a pump will be borrowed from the Cambridge Electric Company which will probably be able to complete the work before tonight
...Name From To Berridge, W. A. Recruit Detach. Co. M Ingraham, M. B. " " M Wister, L. C. " " M Graydon, B. " " M Lent, J. M. " " M Kant, L. S. " " M Stover, R. M. " " M Merriam, A. B. " " M Watson, R. C. " " M Worcester, T. " " M Lawlor, E. L. " " M Trenham, J. F. " " M Hammond, W. S. " " M Busk, F. W. " " M Paul...
...months before the German break occurred, yet while it was shown to be imminent, our nation contented itself with the thought that we might wage war, should we be compelled by undesired necessity, with money and munitions, the money to be lent at a fair rate of interest, the munitions to be manufactured at a fair profit. For a month now we have been at war, and our nation has come to realize that some bravery is to be demanded of it, some sacrifice, some fortitude of spirit. Not by iron alone, but by blood and iron, will...
...army to moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal. If we should continue with a military force too weak to protect our own borders, when the need of enforcing peace arose, other nations would act, while we lent our moral support. History seems to show that peace will never be kept by morals alone...