Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of bound copies of a reprint of the research work done by the hospital while abroad also took place. These constitute a single large volume which is a striking testimonial to the brilliance of the experiments carried on and completed under the trying conditions of the modern battlefield...
...such an Utopian state, we have never tried it out; we do not know that it will even help to end armed strife. As long as there is anything to be desired in the world men will fight for it, whether in the courts or on the battlefield. And how are we to tell whether some nations will abide by the awards of the League any more than some labor unions abide by the awards of arbitration boards. The future is no more assured now than it has been in the past, nor have we arrived at universal brotherhood...
...speaker went on to test the attitude of poets towards the ideal of liberty, and the desire for peace. "The war poetry of the last five years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...years, of laborious and intensive preparation. For many of us that period is now becoming a matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval...
...Every battlefield of France speaks eloquent testimony of the merciful work of the Red Cross. If the voice of the American Expeditionary Force could be heard there would be no doubt concerning the response of the United States to the second war fund campaign. The terrors of battle are decreased and the horrors it entails are minimized by this greatest of relief agencies. No support which the American people give to it will be misconceived or misdirected...