Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faculty has announced that there will be no other official observation of the day. Classes will be held as usual. On last year's Armistice Day a general holiday was declared on account of the ceremonies of the burial of the Unknown Soldier and the Washington Conference, but this holiday was for the one year only...
...Chinese have a unique social system, based on an aristocracy of learning. There are four so called 'honorable' classes, namely: Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Notice that in this system there is no place for the soldier. He is classed with the barber, the actor, the butcher, and the hangman as a necessary evil. Is it not possible that the world might get the germ of an idea from this system which would materially advance international relations? It may leave China without much strength as strength is now reckoned, but I am confident that in the end she will emerge...
...central figure of the panel at the left is a wounded soldier, bearing in his arms the figures of Death and Victory. Death is represented by a drooping figure enveloped in a black cape and hood, while Victory is a female form bearing branches of palm leaves, and held aloft by huge gray wings. On the ground beneath the feet of the three are the bodies of fallen soldiers. In the topmost section of the panel, Mr. Sargent has represented two archangels with trumpets proclaiming victory, while on scrolls flying from the trumpet heads are inscribed the words "Death...
Captain Hilton Howell Bailey, American soldier, author, and lecturer, gave an illustrated address on Poland: "The Outpost of Civilization" last night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...majority of civilized society. The seriousness of the offence varies from the sack of a city to the mischievousness of a gang of small boys. Obviously, to hang an urchin for smashing a street lamp is as out of proportion as to give half a dozen lashes to a soldier who has burnt down a house and murdered the owners...