Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times so plausible, and backed by the material worth of commercialism, are so forceful, as to warrant the utmost care in refutation. The dislike for hard work, and the love of an easy course of life are frequently the real forces which back the arguments of those who stand for merely practical instruction...
...clock General Edwards, commanding the Northeastern department, will review the Corps on Soldiers Field for which ceremony the companies will assemble at 3.20 o'clock. Admission to the Stadium will be free to the public, but tickets will be needed for seats in the section behind the reviewing stand. These tickets, for which no charge will be made, may be secured in limited numbers at the Crimson building this afternoon and tomorrow morning...
...enough to make those young men who now are entering into the inheritance of tradition and power which great men have built and left, stand half abashed before their own arrogance and their own indifference to the past, remembering that all they enjoy of liberty and power has been earned by the blood of those who held liberty and power above the poor boon of existence. We cannot be untrue to those who have given so much. We cannot leave a lesser inheritance to the future than we have received from the past...
...other hand the "Star Spangled Banner," while revered by all, like the Sultan of Turkey, is, like the Sultan of Turkey, known to few. When the band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed...
...flag, of the battles of the Revolution and the Civil War, which made the United States "safe" until today, "for democracy." We must look up to the flag once more as the standard of our forefathers, as the symbol of the ideals which we, as a democratic nation, stand ready to defend...