Word: without
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country-side, there is no shadow of defence, not now, nor in eternity. It is for those men who in time hope to lead the South to arouse such horror in their hearts of this mob blindness that they will do away with it forever; that our whole people, without sectional exception, will honor that law and justice upon which our nation rests...
...exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next day to 230, and by the end of the month 250. Prices fluctuated wildly. On July 2, without debate, the Congress repealed the act! The trouble lay deeper than the evil designs of parasitic gamblers. Nobody is speculating in greenbacks today...
...other service in the army is a constant puzzle to most laymen and to many prospective military men. This confusion is due to at least two causes. The chief cause is doubtless the fact that though there has long been a quartermaster corps which is a staff organization without direct connection with the line, a large number of line officers have been detailed as quartermasters. Another cause is probably the recent consolidation of three staff organizations into one, now called the quartermaster corps; viz, the subsistence, the pay, and the quartermaster departments...
...close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false. The soldier is judged by his willingness, by his considerateness, by his courage. Those are a few of the qualities which go to make men, and by them men are judged without mistake...
...difficult when an individualistic and independent college is suddenly changed into a military camp to change at the same time the characteristics of its individualistic and independent students. Harvard men are notably unapt to bow without reason to constituted authority; in that differing not vastly from other college men, or from non-college men of the younger successful class, for that matter...