Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Because on May 8, 1916, the President 'to avoid any possible misunderstanding,' had solemnly declared, with the approval of the American people, that the Government of the United States could not 'for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants...
...unfortunate that Adjutant-General Pearson should seize the present moment for what sounds like ill-advised and unsound criticism of the splendid work for military preparedness now under way at Harvard. His disavowal of intent to find fault will scarcely remedy the favorable opinion that many persons will be inclined to form. In belittling the intensified training of officers at Harvard, Adjutant-General Pearson is taking a position directly opposed to that of the leading military authorities of the United States. The Harvard course has the approval and support of the War Department. The program of training as mapped...
...arrives the tragic, the supreme moment. The inclinations of the heart cannot give way to the call of duty. The country of our choice sends out the stern demand for that unswerving loyalty to the flat--a loyalty which it must expect of every one of its citizens. And there can be only one answer. We must rally to the flat under which we live and prosper. Our hearts are bleeding at the thoughts of fratricide, but they must bleed. We will shame those that would cast the odium of disloyalty on us. In all our history no traitor...
...time of need. The country will want trained officers if war comes more than any number of eager raw recruits. Harvard men must forget about the sacrifice entailed during the next few months, and realize that the greater amount of serious, concentrated drill and study accomplished at the moment the greater and more valuable will be the service which Harvard can render the Nation in time of danger...
...Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come we must never for a moment forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison with the life of the country, and ever bear in mind the words of Bacon that "the chief duties of life are more Important than life itself." There can be no higher duty than to serve the country to the utmost of our ability...