Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applicant for the aviation corps, one of the most technical arms of the service, is quickly accepted by the Government if he has had a whole or part of a college education, whether or not he knows a carburetor from a crankshaft. An applicant without college training however, has to have considerable technical knowledge. We must of course, give great attention to our military courses, but we can do it without neglecting the academic training that the Government has so definitely approved...
...Persia. Rumania a vassal of Austria, Bulgaria a willing tool, and vast territories wrung from Russia complete a brief but overwhelming accomplishment. The German tide, which we believed to be receding, has reached its highest flood. The Allies futilely hammer on the Western Front and their enemies reap whole nations in a seemingly irresistible advance. The world, as seen from our shores, presents a dark picture indeed...
...right of all people to decide their own fate. We can only hold grimly on and fight in our faith in right until the day is at last won, until races shall be divided into nations which are natural and which will forever maintain the mutual understanding of the whole world...
...last months of the war we have felt keenly the downfall of Russian resistance. We have good cause to deprecate a policy which not only leaves a whole nation in the chaos of anarchy, but endangers the success of our arms. Yet, despite all this, there exists no reason for our press to pour abuse and call down hatred upon that people. For in what period of history has a single race been face to face, at one and the same time, with a great foreign war and a complete overthrow of all institutions? The Russian situation is indeed unfortunate...
...great attack. They cannot hope to wear out the Allied armies by these minor tactics, they are only a prelude to greater events. A raid of one or two companies on a short front will show up the weaknesses that probably also would be present in the whole sector, and so give an indication of the place to start an offensive...