Word: portentous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing that was such a welcome portent of unfailing national generosity and vision and spirituality was the thing that this most excellent book describes, namely the going abroad of all these young Americans. It was looking far beyond personal interest to that world sympathy which must be the basis of all internationalism as it is of all democracy. It was, of course, utter fearlessness. It was of what Mr. Andrew speaks in his "introduction," the longing to have some share with the people of France in defending the ideals for which, as these feel, America has always stood...