Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...radicals say they want "facts." Very well, let us give them facts. They bring forward credulous sentimentalists who have seen the Russian situation under the careful guidance of a Bolshevik Commissar. Surely, we can find men who have lived under the Red Terror and have seen the brutalities of Lenine's Chinese mercenaries and the countless unnamable horrors that have marked the ascendancy of the Soviet...
...three years. Our neighbor to the south burned his fingers in the Jenkins case, and evidently decided to take no chances on further complications arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard to believe that the Mexican Federal authorities are as weak as President Carranza alleges they are; when it comes to a pinch, the Mexican executive can manage to get an American...
...know is who is at the bottom of all this? Is there any number of persons in this University who seriously contend that this new doctrine is in accord with the aims of this nation? No! By all means, No! As Freud in one of his customary nightmares might well have said, the very "rayon" will have departed forever from the game...
Having passed through the terrors of war, we hopefully face the even more perilous times of reconstruction ahead. Reconstruction as well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
...which Roosevelt fought. There were other good divisions, the 2nd and 3rd and 32nd and 42nd, and others, too; there were also a few pretty poor ones, whose achievements under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more good commanding and staff officers, notably General Summerall; it kept going, whether under fire or on the march, under conditions in which most units would have quit...