Word: show
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate has the same question to face. He may be unable to make any large purchase, and may, instead, offer his own services to the government as soldier or sailor. But, where it is possible, let him make the effort to do what he can; however little, and thus show that he is alive to the situation. The Liberty Loan is the first big American war enterprise--he cannot afford to sit back placidly, and shift this financial burden onto the shoulders of his fellow-citizens...
...wisdom deny that the prohibition of intoxicants would save for our nation resources in men and material that we cannot in any circumstances afford to lose. The material wastage annually is tabulated in billions of pounds. The human wastage cannot be computed. Statistics have been carefully gathered to show the extent of this drain on our national wealth. Contrary to the ignorant wisdom of proverb-mouthing fellows, figures do not lie. As a nation we must face without blindness the inevasible truth that the pleasure of alcohol has weakened sadly our strength...
...mere perusal of the title of the War Department bill now in conference would show the fallacy of any such conclusion, for it plainly states that it is 'A bill to authorize the President to temporarily increase the military establishment of the United States...
...been recorded in an old saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...staff of the Corps. Men who were good enough for Plattsburg, whether they are Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, Colby, Bates, or Tufts men, will have an unparalleled oportunity to prove what they may do. Nor is admission limited to college men. Non-college men of ability and character may here show their greater fitness to be officers above men of less ability and character, whether those are Harvard...