Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chance seemed small only a few weeks ago of any respectable part of the class--in a numerical sense--being here for the final day. But thanks to the grace of the military authorities, who are seldom praised and often damned, 1917 will meet in battle strength the last...
...able to do so, by those who, having reached an age of manhood, assume the responsibility of defending the older and the younger generation. As not one of those who are of military age may shun the duty which falls on them be cause of their citizenship and their strength, so those who are not yet of military age should not strive to assume a burden they are not asked to bear...
...summoned her boys for the defense of their native land against the impending national disaster. They have responded with the valor of men. Germany has summoned boys not so young, but still too young for the harsh work of war, that her divisions might be kept at full strength...
Petitions have long since lost their strength in moving the regulated powers, and the reformer, crying incessantly to heaven for the fulfillment of his desire, ultimately loses his breath and ends with whispering pathos and a cracked voice dying into silence. Yet even at the certain doom of the reformer, again we raise our voice to query, not defiantly nor boisterously, but humbly, why Sunday sports are still barred at the University...
...that men are much alike from generation to generation. The peasants of Russia are no wiser than were the peasants of France twelve decades ago. They have as great a wrong to right, as far a journey to go on the way which lends to stability and strength. Is liberty always to be bought with blood? And are rapine, anarchy, and destruction the price wherewith democracy is attained? If so, they are well bought; but they are dearly bought...