Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Willaim Meeker died in France in that cause for which other fine lads have died. He went forth bravely, as he could not help but go. More than that a man may not do. The highest reverence goes to him who wins the proud right to die. But nothing may remake the broken years. The leadership, the inspiration, may not be gleaned from death...
...country must pay in the months to come for the ideals now at stake no one can foresee; but that 1912 will bear hear full share of the cost, whatever it may prove to be, no one for one moment can question. May her record be a brilliant and proud one when next her members gather for a class reunion. The class is indebted to a committee of classmates in New York City, who had largely completed plans for a celebration this spring when the existing state of war became officially recognized by our National Government. Their entire concurrence with...
...bond committee is hoping to obtain many small subscribers in Cambridge to swell the total throughout the country. There were 8,000,000 subscribers to the last British loan of $5,000,000,000, or a ratio of one in six, and the British are proud that their record was superior to that of the Germans of whom one in ten subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan...
...should not, in being proud of our flag and our national anthem, fall to the level of the rabble, which hoots, throws stones, and riots when some slight form is omitted, not from an exalted and generous conception of the meaning of their nation and a desire to preserve its honor, but simply because, being a rabble, it loves to hoot, throw stones, and riot...
...Joffre, Marechal de France, that those thousand men, upreared in the spirit of liberty and proud in their strength, are worth more than a regiment of infantry. They would have stood well in the forefront of battle beside your bravest at the Marne...