Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months and subsequent armies of equal size in the same time...
...battle in trench warfare the artillery must co-operate with the infantry, and every separate unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line. You can see the stupendous task this is, and the amount of practice it will take to accomplish it. Naturally our division is the chopping-block for all the other divisions. All experiments are tried on us; the failures are spared to the other divisions. But there can be no kick coming from us, for we learn both by successes and failures...
...opening of the French room in Matthews Hall will be welcomed by all, as fulfilling a very important need in a very pleasant way. What the Cercle Francais has in recent years not been able to accomplish for various reasons, will now be done by this room under the supervision of the French Department. Daily the value of a knowledge of French is becoming more apparent; of the first officers chosen for service abroad nearly all knew French, and this it was which, other things being equal, determined their selection. In the future the same will doubtless hold true. Thus...
...differences between the Americans and the Chinese are being rapidly obliterated and it is the duty of the Chinese students in this country to do their utmost to accomplish a better mutual understanding between the two nations." This was the point made by Mr. C. D. Hurrey, Secretary for the National Committee on Friendly Relations, in his address last evening to the Chinese students of Greater Boston at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House. "It would be a very good thing if Chinese students in this country would contribute to our magazines and correct some...
...militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting for far higher things than, for example, a section of territory...