Word: said
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...century ago Germany's women melted their wedding rings for gold to defend their native land. Germany will do the like again, before she will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...
...This conclusion is the result of a canvass of members of the Yale Athletic Council whose opinion is that too many athletes have left college or plan to do so before fall. A success of athletics under the conditions imposed by the war is virtually impossible, it is said...
...subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan of $200,000,000. The only way, it is said, this country can show that it is fully in the war is by greatly oversubscribing to the Liberty Loan, and establishing a record ratio of bond purchasers...
...sprinkled their blouses with the familiar and odorous Carbona, patched up the rips in their breeches, turned their shirts inside out so the dirt wouldn't show, polished their shoes with liquid paint, and washed their faces for the great inspection. In time of peace, as Shakespere so ably said it, prepare for war. The preparation has been made...
...said that the northeastern states alone retard the passage of this pressing war measure. The South and the West, heedless of what might be to their own immediate profit, have generously and willingly done away with intoxicants for their own safety, and the greater safety of the nation...