Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...everybody's occasional and unnatural desire to be himself explains most of the perplexing contradictions we see all about us. The only thing that does more general damage is everybody's constant desire to make every one else like him. New York...
...victorious conclusion. And to make our sacrifices worth while, we must stay in the struggle to the bitter end. It is not we men on the firing line who will win this war. It is you who stay at home, sacrificing comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well as we know how. But remember, all our support, moral and physical, comes from those who remain behind in the States. Try to impress all this on the young hopefuls in whose brains...
...unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line. You can see the stupendous task this is, and the amount of practice it will take to accomplish it. Naturally our division is the chopping-block for all the other divisions. All experiments are tried on us; the failures are spared to the other divisions. But there can be no kick coming from us, for we learn both by successes and failures...
...squadron has benefited us as well as France. The increase in number of experienced aces is not as significant as the bond created between two allies. Furtherance of this union has been a noteworthy result. Active participation of American aviators, and their presence abroad were forerunners of later intervention. The way was made ready for the entrance of the coming soldiers. The French people must have perceived for some time that they had friends across the ocean, that not all were too proud to fight. Hope of our entry was kept alive. The fact can not be disguised...
...needs help at once; this was the message brought to us by Dr. Mott. $35,000,000 is what is needed by the end of the week and the University must do its share. To those who heard the lecture last night we need say nothing; every man in that audience realizes his responsibility in this universal campaign to make life more bearable to the soldiers, sailors and prisoners of war. If the men who listened to Dr. Mott's inspiring appeal are still unmoved, nothing we can say will have any effect upon them. To those...