Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
...should like to say a few words in regard to the future. It was our intention to run a naval camp during the summer for the boys who were not old enough to enlist, and we were going to run this camp in connection with the R. O. T. C.; but, as the Government has taken away all our military equipment, the plan has fallen through. Our plans for next year are of a somewhat larger and more ambitious scope. We have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will...
...eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost its gloss. A like number of men volunteered for service under Mr. Roosevelt. Combining these two, we have four hundred thousand...
...century ago Germany's women melted their wedding rings for gold to defend their native land. Germany will do the like again, before she will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...
Unless, as we cannot believe, it prove that conscientious objectors and the like object, not to war, which is a debatable justice, but to death, which is an impartial doom, visiting the artisan no less than the soldier, and ineluctable by the cowardly as by the brave...