Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attack on Van, they met an armed resistance from the Armenians who were able to obtain weapons of any kind. Bombs were thrown into Van by the Turks, but the Armenian women patrolled the city and rushed up to the bombs before the fuses had burned to the powder, and after extinguishing the flame, used the powder for the shells, which were used against the Turks. After 28 days of continual fighting, the Turks decided that it would be impossible to overcome the Armenian resistance quickly, and on hearing that the Russians were coming to their assistance, retreated hastily...
What is "adequate" preparedness? Who shall be the "experts" into whose hands this nation shall give its future? Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood or the Du-Point Powder Co.? Against whom, against what, are we thus "adequately" to prepare? Have we attained such internal unity among out sixty or more nationalities, have we even utilised one-half of the potentiality of such nationalities in building up world federation, that we should now take up in despair this old man's outworn creed and method from the war ruined hands of Europe...
...pacifist friends think that the whole future of the country will be in the hands of "Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood, and the DuPont Powder Co." This is far from true for only the military future will be shaped by these capable people assisted by a large, additional force of military experts. Only by the assurance of a strong defensive policy can the other national interests develop unhampered...
Take black which stands for death and gun-powder and printer's ink. And orange which stands for gold, the root of all evil. Princeton's flag must disappear before the march of civilization...
...Boston College H. S., Boston Latin. Concord H. S. (Mass.), Concord H. S. (N. H.), Cranston H. S., English H. S., Exeter, Framingham H. S., Hebron Academy. Huntington H. S., Lawrence H. S., Lynn Classical, Lynn English H. S., Maine Central, Malden, Newton H. S., Noble and Greenough, Powder Point. Providence Tech, Volkmann, Wakefield H. S., Worcester Academy, and the Worcester Classical School...