Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant fact, nevertheless, it that three men mention the belief that the War Department wants to call the younger men. "I believe it will be lowered to 19 on account of the opinions held by the War Department," wrote Senator Kirby of Arkansas. Representative Mott of New York thinks that "military authorities are unanimous in maintaining that it should be as low as that." Hon. Bertrand H. Snell thinks that the younger men will be called for training but will not be sent across the water until they...
President Eliot the went on to show that Switzerland is a country similar to Massachusetts in size and population, having somewhat less than four million inhabitants, but it can nevertheless muster immediately an army of half a million, with a much larger number in reserve. In 1911 the number of men under training for two months or more during the summer was about 210,000. They have proved available for a first-line defence in 48 hours. There were also over 275,000 trained reserves ready for the second line almost as promptly as called for--a total army...
...Nevertheless, it is a condition and not a theory that confronts Kreisler today; there is a stirring of mass sentiment against even art that is Teutonic in origin, and managers who have contracted with the Austrian would stand to lose heavily if he were to hold to his rights. We are not yet at war with Austria. His claims would be hard to contest in our courts. He chooses to cut the Gordian Knot and ask all managers to release...
...York went back on Mitchel. Through the clouds of gloom, however, rays of optimism appear. The man who tells us the war is going to end in six months will now misinform us for a few weeks, and thereby satisfy his prophetic instincts. Ground for encouragement does exist, nevertheless, not on the tongue of the seer, but on Flanders mud, Allied union and American progress. As Englishmen regain France's lost territory, they drive from our minds the trenches in Italy. In the attempt to create an allied general staff we see an endeavor for more efficient co-operation. While...
These men have no easy task,-- eight or nine hours of training is very little in preparation for so important an event. It is like having the Yale football game in the middle of October and expecting to see a finished football machine. Secretary Baker cannot expect too much; nevertheless, the new men by a little conscientious effort can do a great deal for the fame of the Corps and thus help make the Secretary's visit worth while...