Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...concerned. We may have had difficulties in enrolling for Plattsburg Training Camps last year and there were doubtless barriers in the path of those who wished to become officers at Devens and Upton, but these difficulties were mere jokes compared to the maze of complications which came in the wake of the present camp. First there were no application blanks, then the applications were closed and reopened in the space of four days, then it was decided that early examinations were necessary and that no one could go to Plattsburg without taking these early examinations, and for a time...
...greatest after the-war problems will be social and moral, not materialistic. However much we may be concerned about the expansion of our South American trade, we are far more concerned about conserving the moral insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money in everyday life. The function of the college is not to copy life...
...know the facts and that we shall be sincere. We should be very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing humbly in the wake of an Emperor nor pretending to be holier than God made us. --New York Tribune...
...begin real fighting. The Allies are counting on our guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...
...dear your old red night.--Ye wake...