Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years to come a vast accumulation of hatred, jealousy and mutual fear among all European nations. Germany, as the main butt of all these fears and hatreds, will agree to a reduc- tion of armament only if she receives adequate pledges that disarmament will not be used as a weapon to cripple her permanently...
...bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics was academic. Today it is practical. Four years ago the ballot was a symbol. Today it is a weapon for good or ill. Fortunately for the destiny of the nation, youth is idealistic. Its eyes are on the future. It is living in today and tomorrow, not yesterday. Its vision is clear and its heart sound. It is safe to predict that in the momentous election in which it will...
...need emphasis. Fred Tibbott used to play back for Princeton in 1907 and 1908, but the trouble with him, or rather the system, was that he could neither kick nor throw the forward pass; every one knew that when the went back a run was forthcoming. The great weapon of the kick-formation threat is versatility on the part of the protagonist and the perfect interplay of line and backfield. Harvard lost Mahan, but of course, will endeavor to find a successor--perhaps Flower, perhaps Casey--and then to effect an interlocking system in which each man will...
...necessary to train the men and the officers at the same time,-hence the great delay in producing an army fit for offensive work, the time for decisive action being delayed for at least two years. It was not until after Gettysburg that either side had an efficient weapon of offence sufficiently flexible to move and to obey, without delay or hesitation, the supreme orders of its commander-in-chief...
...gaining a certain amount of needed training at a military camp? Surely we have not reached that longed for state of civilization where national differences are settled without bloodshed Therefore, until such a time comes, should we not combat war clouds and war itself rather with a well sharpened weapon of self-preparedness than with some untried instrument of the future. G. B. BLAINE...