Word: obey
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cent. minority who oppose compulsory service will however still present some points of interest. Their stand has already been termed "socialistic and even anarchistic," apparently because they raised the question of what would be done with "the 200,000 who would refuse to obey such a law (as the Chamberlain bill) if passed." (Inasmuch as the country today contains well over 100,000 of the Society of Friends alone whose faith forbids them to take up arms it is difficult to see how this estimate of fact was either "socialistic or even anarchistic"). But "pacifists" such anti-conscriptionists doubtless...
...same time,-hence the great delay in producing an army fit for offensive work, the time for decisive action being delayed for at least two years. It was not until after Gettysburg that either side had an efficient weapon of offence sufficiently flexible to move and to obey, without delay or hesitation, the supreme orders of its commander-in-chief...
...Members of the Regiment, duly enrolled, are required to obey and respect all officers appointed over them by proper authority...
...understood that I freely subject myself to obey and respect all officers that may be appointed over me by proper authority, while receiving such military instruction and while enrolled in the Harvard Regiment...
...neighbor in distress. It is forgotten by those who urge these criticisms that in military training the enemy is present chiefly in imagination, whereas the person in evidence is the fellow-soldier with whom one must act, and the representative of the nation whom one must obey. It is the social and political capacities that are chiefly developed, while the pugnacious elements of our nature are trained into their subordinate place...