Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strikingly true of our ingenuous and eager way of preparing to make war, that we see but one thing at a time, and follow that with our whole hearts. We found we needed officers; therefore we should all go into intensive training. We found we needed food; therefore we should plough our public parks, and spade up our front lawns, and plant radishes in our window boxes...
Cadet privates are far too lax in observing this obligation. Cadet officers feel compelled to be lax in demanding its observance. It is a small thing; but many small things mark the mediocre from the good officer...
...importance or concern to him, because a dishonest neutrality is morally more reprehensible than war) in such men the desire to serve the nation devotedly and intelligently is very great. It is to the latter then, but not to those who harbor any sentimental illusions about the thing called war, that the following information is commended...
Many English university men were killed in the war, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved; I look to the American college man now for decisive action," said the Honorable Arthur James Balfour, leader of the British Mission to this country, in a recent interview in the Yale News...
...many of whom were already officers in the army, were immediately put into action. They were among the first sent to France. To them belongs the honor of breaking the rush of the enemy. It was a critical moment and they responded nobly. Many were killed, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved...