Word: regimentations
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...kills his horse driving back to Preobrashensk, and arrives with wolves harnessed to his sled. He meets a rebellious regiment and touches with his whip handle the men to be hanged by their com rades. Before the Cathedral of Saint Basil blood flows from his manifold executions. Other rebels are hanged and sent floating down the Don on rafts...
...62nd Regiment of Turkish infantry was responsible for these and innumerable other acts of violence and pillage...
...dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...
...father, a Congregational minister, taught him to reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame as an orator...
...professional schools and for citizenship; that such interest and respect are not in American colleges what they should be. I said that this is not due to the fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into the regiment that was going to the front, amidst privation, wounds and death; that youth desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have...