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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arrest Saturday in New York of the anarchistic movement, composed of agitators unknown to fortune, although not to what passes in this world as fame, renders temporarily without influence a source of evil opposition to constituted government...
...that is true, then surely even the least of those many valiant thousands of unknown men who die and who will die in battle, fighting to obliteration for an unselfish cause, is worth more to the world than the singer who will arise at some future day to tell in undying words of this huge...
...first battalion at Wakefield indicate that the work there is progressing in the most satisfactory manner possible. Having completed the firing at 200 and 300 yards Tuesday, the men yesterday shot at distances of 500 and 600 yards, after spending a morning at combat firing by platoons at unknown ranges. On the whole the shooting is excellent, and the company averages high...
There is no reason why any accident should occur. Daily in Europe millions of men handle firearms in the most deadly way. Yet by the use of a small amount of care, accidents--in the sense of self-inflicted casualties--are almost unknown. With the same reasonable care there will be no mishaps next week...
More probably the explanation of this ready appreciation of an unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...