Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only this loss and my sorrow over it that have given me this confidence and determination. I realize now and I only wish that every man, woman and child in this country could and would realize that we are up against the wickedest and most powerful force of evil that the world has ever seen, and that it is going to be a gruelling conflict that will test our country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength...
...home to the University, and this time with more force and power than ever before. The War Records show that the number of Harvard men who have sacrificed their lives is steadily and rapidly growing. We cannot read the University's roll of honor without that intense and personal sorrow which alone can make us fully realize the great duties we will have to perform, and the great sacrifices we shall have to bear...
...must suffer as well as mourn; and that the chief sally-port of the new world's war against the Central Empires of the old world has been virtually destroyed. And whether or not they had any hand in this calamity, how fiercely our enemies will rejoice at the sorrow and destruction that have befallen...
With genuine sorrow we say goodbye to Captain Dupont, who leaves today to take up his duties at Camp Devens. Seldom has any man more completely charmed those who came into contact with him than...
...easy to confuse American hearts with American heads; as easy as it always has been to confuse American political policy with American commercial policy. Sympathy, even the sympathy of a common sorrow, cannot bridge the Atlantic. America will remain distinctively American, Europe stanchly European. American and European affairs will hereafter meet at many points; American and European national lives will remain far apart--assuming that the theory of competition continues as the sustaining power of existence individual and national...