Word: rods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living in the day when "might took the place of right, and the weak were oppressed, and the mighty ruled with an iron rod...
...large body of serious, determined men, who will push on to the end. They will not flinch, nor will their spirit weaken because they actually know how hard is the work ahead of them. That American spirit is now meeting its supreme test, but it will take more than rod-driven Teutonism to overcome...
...Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...