Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...today. But we oppose to them the pressing need for men now. The college man makes an able officer and in such a place every man should seek opportunity. But the college man is bred of the stuff that will make good in any capacity and which will soon rise to the top. Let the very young who are as yet unaffected by college training remain behind that they may prepare. But, let every man who has feil college influence over a period, of several years, no matter what his age may now be, answer the call. Those...
...from his parents. By reducing expenditures for unessential or extravagant purchases and investing the resulting savings in bonds, he materially aids in war production. Again, as Mr. Clark has said, his accomplishment is two-fold. He discourages the non-essential industries, which are competing against the Government, creating a rise in prices and scarcity of labor, and he contributes funds with which the Government may finance...
...Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people. It makes us bitter, but it has called forth a new American spirit. Sacrifice, the greatest power of mankind, has come to permeate our national life. Our sons...
...orderlies, wardmasters or ambulance drivers. The service is only for emergencies, and it is understood that all men who enrol in this work will be expected to serve only in such cases. Men will be enlisted in the service as privates, but all will be given a chance to rise in rank by competitive examination after a short period of training...