Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amendment after amendment--labelled "reservations"--with the avowed purpose of killing the Treaty, at what cost to the world they cared not a whit. The promises they made in the heat of war, the pledges they gave to those men who laid down their lives that the Senate might exist are as nothing to them. They see no farther ahead than the next presidential election; the glory of the Republican Party is greater to them than the welfare of the world...
...dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships...
...calling of the National Industrial Conference at Washington, of which he was a member. Explaining the attitude of the employers, Mr. Fish contended that the conference broke up because the labor group was unwilling to allow the employees generally to choose the agency through which they might deal with their employers, but insisted in substance that only the trade and labor unions should be recognized, thus excluding the shop committees. The employers, on the other hand, were willing to admit the principle of collective bargaining, leaving to the employees in each instance the right in choose the agency by which...
...sidelines, were outweighed by more than 10 pounds to a man, but put up a good defensive flight, and in the last quarter twice threatened the Tiger goal. W.H.Churchill, C.C. Buell, G. Owen and H. W. Clark were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
When asked whether he did not think it might be better to send enough troops to Russia to crush decisively the Bolshevist forces, Dr. Frankfurter emphatically replied: "Crush the Bolshevists? It is impossible. And further, it is the very presence of our soldiers in Russia which gives the Bolshevists their power. The plea that they are fighting against a foreign invader serves to gain the sympathy of the people...