Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which are the engrossing problems of the present; it is, finally, the vision which sees beyond the pleasant conventions and pretentious optimism of the present and breaks forth into a life which is so unlike that of ordinary men that it secures immediate eminence for its reward...
...every period of national importance, there are men who have achieved distinction who become entangled in embarrassing situations beyond their control, of which they often become the innocent victims...
...material lies scattered everywhere, dead horses lie along the roads, often still harnessed to the wagons or caissons they were drawing away, and, worse yet, men, too, sometimes lie unburied for several days. But there is no time, often, for any other course. One fights until he is weary beyond words. He digs trenches and mans them; he carries back the wounded; he breathes poisoned gas and utters more poisonous oaths; he sleeps on and in the ground like a beast; eats what and when he can (and often he eats not at all); and always he watches and works...
...many of whom may have had less military experience than he himself, but rather of those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks and at Barre. In any military body strong centralized authority and its complement, centralized responsibility, are always essential; beyond a doubt their absence has menaced the strength of our military organization this year. Equally certain, however, is the fact that the new order will re-establish that discipline, respect for authority, and esprit de corps that will always be connected with the names of Azan, Shannon and Cordier...
...from the combination of these factors that we must see that socialism has passed beyond the realm of theory and has become a movement. Though there are many who believe it a step backward, there are no men, however, who can afford to disregard it as the creation of rattle-brain theorists. There are great changes in the air which will mean a new society. They may be socialistic and they may be evolutions which will stop far short of that goal. But they are changes which must enlist the active thought of every man who will aid in creating...