Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the College, the Graduate Schools and the Faculty. Of the 46 who sacrificed their lives, 25 were killed in action, all but one of whom were serving in the allied armies. Among the other several died from wounds received in battle while four went down with the Lusitania...
...Broderick '08, killed in the sinking of the Lusitania, May 5, 1917, while a member of the Belgian Relief Commission...
Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium...
...women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
...inches of your space to express my humble belief that this country at this time does not want war? I do not think there is anything in the present situation to justify our rushing hot-headedly to arms? If we had declared war on Germany at the time the Lusitania was sunk, we might have claimed at least a man's-size pretext. From the standpoint of a neutral American, I cannot see that Germany's conduct during the entire war differs from that of England, except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans...