Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Vaguely; tell me about it," the Briton rejoins...
...class become inebriated on the lemonade punch, but the music will not cease, nor the rhythmic footsteps falter. It is a great life. We may become leaders of the world in after years, but only once may we be Juniors at the dance. In later times we shall tell our children and our children's children of the glories of that magnificent ball, when the daughters of the gods descended from the heights to delight mortals for one evening...
...wisdom of those orders." This means, does it not, that the President shall commit the American people to war or peace without their saying one word. Our newspapers, of course, do not voice public opinion, but only print class opinions. Use the word "Kaiser" and you could not tell it was not Prussia. So far, therefore, as the R. O. T. C. discourages thinking, thinking straight and thinking publicly, we believe it suffocates our democracy. We submit that if the issue is to be decided in the interests of the many, the many must formulate their views and press them...
Whether the war clouds which gather now so darkly will burst in storm, or whether we shall yet continue for an indefinite period of weeks or years our troubled peace, we cannot tell. Our plans must be made for all possibilities. The plan for training officers will prove no less valuable if war shall not come now. From men trained in this manner may be formed the nucleus of the national army which most realize must come in a short time. We are not primarily preparing for war tomorrow; we are not preparing for war against Germany. We are preparing...
...United States has been in such positions before during the long period of the great war, and each time the bellicose have called for battle, and the pacific have prayed for peace. Each time our government has avoided the conflict with what measure of honor only the future can tell. And now we are face to face with another situation, more serious than the others it would seem. But, in reality this newest peril presages no more than the previous crises our entrance into the holocaust of the nations...