Word: storming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...
Lloyd George has weathered the worst storm of his career. He has emerged with added laurels, and proved once more that he is the one man to head the British Government...
...times call on the man. In all of Russia, in all of Germany, England, Italy, France, there has arisen not one to speak with a voice that the nations might hear. There has arisen not one to find the purpose in the storm, and to lead the world through the foreshadowed change in its development...
...enveloped by unkind fate in the dark storm of war, we are threatened by irreparable loss. The Senior Picnic has gone, the Pudding Show has gone. And many of our classmates have gone, often leaving behind the sad memento of their debts. Yet the worst of all may overwhelm us. The goodies will...
...action of Columbia University in appointing a committee to inquire into whether any of the faculty were propounding to students doctrines which were submersive of the Constitution of the United States or otherwise unpatriotic is likely to arouse a storm both of approval and abuse. The determination of the trustees to investigate this aspect of university life would be, it was thought, in accord with the measures which have been adopted for mobilization of all the forces at Columbia in the event...