Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public service. --Boston Transcript...