Word: mission
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pride" would prompt us not to place our trust in the altruism of other nations, for every other nation in the world, until man's nature shall be revolutionized, will have its own interest to observe and its own enlightened selfishness to guide its path. America has its own mission in the world and can go far in the universal promulgation of American ideals but it can accomplish nothing in this way unless it remaking true to those ideals itself. It is with nations as with individuals--We cannot hope to benefit others if we are stripped of the ability...
...outbreak of hostilities in 1917, Colonel Bolling formed the First Reserve Aero Squadron and was appointed a major. Previous to the departure of the squadron overseas he was sent on a special mission to Italy, France and England. Upon the completion of this work he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and made Chief of the Air Service...
...officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed on the second day after being relieved from staff duty, while engaged on an especially hazardous mission, which he accomplished...
...that the Harvard Medical Unit has fulfilled its noble mission to the British troops in France and has earned the tribute of their undying gratitude, I desire to offer to that splendid organization some expression, however inadequate, of my deep appreciation of the great work that it has performed...
...University, on the other hand, was the only American college to have a mission of French Officers, and a Naval Radio School...