Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter what may have happened in Europe, men enrolled in the S. A. T. C. remain soldiers in the United States Army and as such must attend to their work just as loyally and faithfully as if the war were still going on. No army order ever ventured to assert that the duty of the soldier to obey is in any way lessened in time of peace. To be true to his oath, he must perform whatever task is allotted him with the best of good-will and cheerfulness...
According to men in the Army, the first ten years of the present world war will be the hardest. Those of the Navy have a different way of expressing it. They assert that the seventh, fourteenth and twenty-first years will be the toughest. Either or neither may be right. The fact remains that in their jesting way the men of service have expressed a basic truth which we all must come to realize sooner or later. The war will be long and the war will be hard. There is but one way to shorten the conflict or make...
...insincere and almost repel us from a belief in what we are fighting for. We need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines that "American Troops Stop Germans." It appeals to a selfish national pride, but does little toward winning...
...says further that the individual opinions held by members of the CRIMSON Board will never prevent one holding contrary views from presenting his case to the College. We wish to test that statement. In order to do so we hereby assert that the personal opinions of one particular member of the CRIMSON Board were the obvious cause for the suppression of each of three communications from graduates...
...mere accident that has made all the pro-German organs in the press clamor against the men who dare point out our shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed...