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Word: nationalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with any feeling of weakness, nor any terror, will our young American officers go to the front. From the death of many the life of the nation may be conserved. Knowing that, they will not falter, though the time granted to them be short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPAN OF LIFE | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

...fails properly to recognize his officers either through carelessness or through a misplaced sense of the incongruous, is not neglecting the particular officer in the case. He is neglecting the mark of loyalty to his service. Behind each officer is the army. And behind the army is the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAY UNTO CAESAR | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

...those men who are not called to go with the first chosen army, there must come a great measure of desolation at knowing how brief will be the service of these young men. There will not be one person in this wide nation who will not have a close friend leave at the first call. They who remain may trust, with that vague and lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPAN OF LIFE | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

Surely we cannot believe that the purpose of those two hundred thousand men was to serve under Mr. Roosevelt rather than to serve their nation, to fight under Mr. Roosevelt rather than to fight Germany. One man avails as much in the Foreign Legion as in the proposed volunteer army. So would two hundred thousand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

...Roosevelt is needed here, to inspire that enthusiasm which we must have, and which his tremendous magnetism may give. Perhaps here, arousing this nation to its fullest courage in fighting for a great cause, he could do as much as an adviser of the French general staff in directing the armies at the front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

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