Word: pourings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world's affairs...
...have felt keenly the downfall of Russian resistance. We have good cause to deprecate a policy which not only leaves a whole nation in the chaos of anarchy, but endangers the success of our arms. Yet, despite all this, there exists no reason for our press to pour abuse and call down hatred upon that people. For in what period of history has a single race been face to face, at one and the same time, with a great foreign war and a complete overthrow of all institutions? The Russian situation is indeed unfortunate, but it demands for its understanding...
These few words fully express the whole spirit of Prussianism. The training of years has done its work. The German has been led to pour out his blood to as full measure as any of his opponents, but he knows not why. As he pays tribute to his comrades who have fallen, the most glorious thing he can say is that they "died for their Kaiser." What free men will offer their lives to the ambitions of a single leader? It passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted...
...Whiting): Debussy, 1862.--Poissons d'or Danseuses de Delphis, La fille aux cheveux de lin, L'isle joyeuse. Ballade, Debussy Le Manoir de Rosamonde, Duparc Le Secret, Faure Le chevalier Belle-Etoile. Holmes Excerpts from "Carmen", Bizet "En vain pour eviter." "Les tringles des sistres." Miss Pratt...
...Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Litt.D. (Harvard 1917) and Docteur-des-Lettres (University of Paris), Laureat de l'Academic Francaise, Officier de la Legion d'Honneur, on "La Guerre Europeenne Actuelle." 1. La Guerre Actuelle et ses Differences avec les Guerre Anterieures. 2. L'Instruction d'une Armee pour la Guerre Actuelle. 3. Les Tranchees et l'Existence qu'on y mene. 4. La Preparation dune Attaque. 5. Comment s'execute une Attaque. 6. Comment est remportee une Grande Victoire. 7. La Defense d'une Position. 8. Les Qualites de l'Officier et du Soldat. Monday evenings at eight o'clock...