Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...training. The departure of these regular army officers must bring home to every mind the fact that there is a singular shortage of such men in the United States. And with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where are our officers coming from? Secretary Baker who surely ought to be in a place to know answers this query plainly in his letter to President Lowell. They are coming from just such groups of men as that...
Prof. F. W. Marvel, director of athletics, said: "We feel that it is a great opportunity to put athletics in its proper place develop new men and give more students an opportunity to participate and compete. Having a university represented by a few stars may win games but the mere winning of games should not be the chief aim and purpose of educational institutions...
Those of the peace party who have any foresight and any sort a synthetic mind, and there must be a great many such people among so large a party, will see that German conquest will put the acceptance of peace-party ideals back hundreds of years. If members of the peace party believe in clinging to an ideal, even to the extent of bringing down the scorn of the rest of the world, let them now take up and continue to take up arms in defense of that ideal, until the ruling force in Germany, the one great and powerful...
...lectures and laboratories, interspersed with calisthenics and one hour of drill each day. The discipline will be substantially the same as that of West Point and weekly examinations will be held to determine the standing of each man. Those who do not do good work will either be put back and have to repeat part of the course or else be recommended for dismissal from the school...
Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...