Word: move
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true that, as Government even invoking the shades of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, may not move the universe, so the Corps may not move Government. It is fortunate in like manner that the Corps may not be moved by panic...
...Germany is to be frightened to weak-kneed terror by some bugaboo of a submarine destroyer? Do we think she will yield to old-womanish fears, and flee in terror from Belgium, when she hears that America is about to set forth to wither her enemies? If words could move Germany, our words would have done so. Words cannot move Germany. She has not a fear of our prowess equal to our confidence...
...great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
...might tell the truth better than the present prices in a demoralized market are doing. Such a report might clear the air. We should stop the use of grain for whiskey and beer during the war. For the rest, I am inclined to the view that the Government should move cautiously, and always in co-operation with the leaders in the grain and flour trade, who alone have the knowledge required to make any Governmental action do more good than harm. It is not as easy to handle the food supply of America as it was to distribute a known...
...cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...