Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Because of the war" is a touchstone of classification which by this time the most unobservant has applied. If our Government, the benevolent, and some others had their way, "because of the war" would cover not a multitude of sins, but good deeds. "I have cut my profit to the narrowest margin because of the war" the tradesman would say to the carpenter, who would replay that "I have doubled my efficiency because of the war," or to the manufacturer, who would rejoin that "I take special pains with my products because of the war." Man would be honest over...
...expected that the uniforms will arrive tomorrow the 24th, and the Supply Room will be kept open afternoon and evening for their distribution. Men without uniforms cannot appear in the exercise to be held for the Secretary of War...
...Regiment will receive the Honorable Secretary of War at Fresh Pond on Thursday the 25th inst., at 9.45 o'clock A. M., as follows...
Washington today is filled with college professors, who are drawn, like so many others, by that irresistable attraction which the capitol of any republic possesses in times of great stress or governmental reorganization. They are busily engaged in every department of government, on every form of war work. The intelligence department of the Army War College is paying them high salaries to translate the letters and documents of the German war prisoners; they are drawing charts and fixing prices in the Food Administration; many are organizing the resources of the country on the Council of National Defense. They have even...
...spite of horned-spectacles and mild manners, these professors' suggestions have been worthy of serious consideration. Their war plans have in mind something more than the mere running of the war. It was they who, under the title of intellectuals, hoped that war might come, in order that many of the injustices which they believe have existed in the past might be corrected. Their lives had been spent in dealing with principles and theories and abstractions. But now they have come into power at a time when many things are being changed and theories may actually be put into practice...