Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...
...Everyone is at work in the fields. Who sows not, neither reaps nor harvests. Our peasants are not deserters either in peace or in war. But it is not sufficient to work. It is necessary also to prepare the ground with the necessary fertilizers. It is necessary to sow well and in time...
These urchins were orphaned by the War, revolution, famine. Once there were two million of them; now there are said to be only 100,000. They live by theft and the world is their home. Now they are fighting with sticks, stones, fists, knives for the possession of tar boilers for winter shelters...
Harvard announced plans for an international debate against a team to be composed of students from three English universities. The subject to be debated (in Cambridge, Mass.): "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising "pacifism" Harvard will take the affirmative...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...