Word: protected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...directly before the country but it probably will be before long. In any event the arguments pro and con will not change appreciably; and the way the fires of disunion are breaking out today, it would not be impossible that people will clamor for universal training in order to protect the country...
...these friends of an immediate peace the desirability of that peace is evidently of no account. They do not seem to consider the possibility that the United States must protect herself as energetically now as during the war, or go down in the coming struggle of nations. They do not seem to consider that, perhaps, Congress knows a little more about conditions of things than they...
...treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong in the Lusitania affair and a religious pacifist who would not take another life to protect...
...provisions for reinstatement do not protect a man until he actually reinstates. If he waits he may not be in as good health as he was at the time of discharge and consequently may not be able to secure reinstatement...
...from making the world safe for democracy, has only emphasized the need for more extensive preparation than this nation has ever before witnessed. We were told, in fact, that, unless we went to war, we should have to organize the nation on a military basis in order to protect ourselves from an aggressive Germany. The implication was that the alternative would be freedom from this incubus which has-drained the treasuries of Europe...