Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carpenter, who would replay that "I have doubled my efficiency because of the war," or to the manufacturer, who would rejoin that "I take special pains with my products because of the war." Man would be honest over tax schedules "because of the war," maids would break fewer dishes "because of the war," college students would work harder "because of the war," dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart. But we all know that it is not often so. The storekeeper is uncertain with his deliveries "because of the war"; the factory charges higher prices for shoddy materials...
...regiment will reassemble and at command will break into a column of squads from the right and march past the Secretary at some point to be selected on the return route, officers and the regimental color saluting...
During the period preceding the war, Captain Amann spent much time in the United States and South America engaged in carrying on his business, and was living in Buenos Ayres at the out-break of war in 1914. He returned to France and joined his regiment, the 115th Infantry, which was sent to the Champagne front. He was at once promoted to a 1st lieutenantcy and in June 1915 was appointed a temporary captain...
...continuance of its policy of service to the musical interests of the University which it has maintained for a hundred years. It is supported in this opinion by M. Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who has been secured again as conductor. He states emphatically that since the out break of the war music has assumed "a higher, more sacred position than ever before...
...objection of these anarchists was not personal. It was universal. They wanted no one to serve. And to prevent anyone from serving, to break down the expressed will of the people, they used all the spurious arguments concerning the liberty of the individual, which have been the weapon of the demagogue and the ruin of true liberty so long as society has existed as an institution. The vast majority has provided for the minute minority irreconcilable to the conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content...