Word: risk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...help has been individual and unofficial. But now that we are in actual alliance our co-operation will be a thousand times as effective because it has all the sanction of a great Government and a united people. Our soldiers will be able to fight for France without the risk of expatriation. Our money will go directly to the French treasury. And the French Government, in sending these officers to Harvard, is recognizing the official and far stronger bond that now unites the two nations...
...pleasure to see you threatened by risk, danger, and sacrifice. But these are stern times, and we must do our duty. We who have known you have complete confidence...
...Advocate there appears an editorial dealing with the men who, to quote the author's words, think to serve humanity by doing hospital and ambulance work in England and France." The writer of the editorial then goes on to criticise these men who are pusillanimous enough to prefer to risk their lives in the relief of suffering rather than serve gloriously in their respective college regiments, even as he. The editorial is written throughout in a highly moral tone of admonition, of gentle rebuke, but it is nothing less than a serious attack on the ambulance drivers who have failed...
...supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the editorial? While the latter, safe at home, was mouthing rhetorical rubbish about "the one loyalty" and the "greater cause," the men whom he attacked were saving lives at the constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging on "a double disloyalty"; and that, when all is said, "they are failing both the nation and the race." It has come to this then, that the vulgar fanaticism of that editor...
...species of weapon is, of course, out of the question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only ask: "What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during...