Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great many signs that Harvard is beginning to recognize the debt which al America owes to France. The two countries, after a century and a half, are once, more allies in a just cause. At that time France helped us more than we can realize, with men and money with Rochambeau, d'Estaing, and Lafayette. In this war we have been helping France, too, if not so generally at least as devotedly. We, too, have sent them men and money, have given them Chapman and Prince and Hoskier. Thus far, of course, our help has been individual and unofficial...
...greatly increase the acreage under cultivation throughout the whole neighborhood. As a result the normal crop production will be at least doubled and it is hoped trebled. Seed, fertilizer and labor will, as far as possible, be furnished to all those who are unable to themselves furnish them. The money for carrying out these loans will be raised in the towns...
...object lesson in the value of air fighting that could well be conceived of, we have today about one-fiftieth of the number of aviators that we ought to have and that we easily might have had, if sufficient attention had been given to the matter and if sufficient money had been asked for by the army and navy...
...which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer, he received what is known as a Government grant, and also a grant of money for those who then went into the regular army. So, at the end of every academic year young men were turned out all over England experienced in military drill and skilled in the use of a rifle, ready to serve as army officers in case of a national emergency. Your...
...have been scoffed at for a nation of money-lovers, we, the greatest idealists in politics since the French Revolution. The warring powers have said, scornfully or sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to false gods of Mammon. They have said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping...