Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leaders has its lesson for those who are working frantically to stay the onward course of this anarchic engine of destruction. Their naive attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before. To rid society of the menace of Bolshevism, we must strike at its roots which are to be found in just this "reckless modern materialism...
...first flush of patriotic ardor which swept through our colleges last April has passed away and perhaps we should rejoice to be rid of its less reasonable manifestations. But in this cooler, grimmer April of 1918 we must not forget its essential spirit. Indeed, the fact that every patriotic individual has a part to play in the war is far more apparent in the thirteenth month after our entry than it was in the first. Then the French were wresting the Chemin des Dames heights from the Germans, the British were driving the enemy at Arras, while revolutionized Russia...
This war more than any preceding conflict is a war between the morales of the opposing forces. The side is going to win which has the greatest unity of purpose. But in order to realize the necessary unity of spirit in the war we have got to get rid of some of the obstacles which hinder the full apportionment of our common fighting strength and herd instinct. These obstacles are essentially three...
...sake of ten righteous. The ten righteous were not found, and Sodom perished. We must expect that we--if we are Sodom, and the cowardly are righteous--will also perish, unsaved by our ten or so righteous. We may bear our doom gladly, if we first get rid or the righteous...
...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...