Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft men. The bulk of them were scrawny enough when they entered Camp Upton. Their physique after a few months' training, as revealed in the parade in this city, was astounding. So it was in every camp; for after all, despite all belief to the contrary, the American nation was and is one of the least athletic in practice and instinct of any in the world. THE EVENING POST...
...more practical way in which the University can help the Government and the country as a whole than by turning out a trained body of aeronauts. In case of another war, they would be of immense value to the Government; and, in time of peace, they would create a nation-wide interest in a very fascinating and far-reaching science...
...President Theodore Roosevelt '80 was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, yesterday afternoon. The flags of the nation were at half-mast in solemn remembrance of his loss as several hundred close friends gathered in the little Episcopal Church shortly after noon for the final service...
...privacy and simplicity of the last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire...
...they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality is the secret of success as disclosed to us in the lives of all men whose names are worthy to be recorded on the nation's roll of honor...