Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...paths that England traversed America has entered. The same problems are to be solved. We are all united by the same culture, the same language, the same ideals. One immediate goal confronts us, to defeat Prussianism. In accomplishing this we must have action immediately for a concerted and deathly blow, and to the American college man I look for coolheaded, but decisive action...
Just two years ago today the whole world was rocked with the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. The war had then been in progress nine months, yet nothing so terrible as this blind blow to civilization had occurred, save the first ruin of Belgium...
...vote with the machine are ordered to abide in Cambridge during the summer. The place of their abiding will be the dormitories. But how changed will be those dormitories from their erstwhile winter and springtime gladness. The alarm will not ring at 10 A. M. But the bugle will blow in the cold dawn. More terrible even than the awakening will be the aftermath. Before even one soldier may imbibe his coffee and beans he will be forced to make his bed with his own martial hands. Do not declaim with Sherman that war is unladylike. This is worse than...
...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
...illustrate his points. During the batting practice, Ellis, who has been playing in left field for Team A, was hit on the head by a ball thrown by Murray, who was catching, and was knocked unconscious, but quickly recovered with no lasting effects from the blow in evidence...