Word: continental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The resources of our country are great, they are incomprehensible save by the mind that may reckon in millions. But the need of the world is greater, and its dire famine far more incomprehensible. The very utmost producing power we may muster from our whole continent may well be needed...
"With regard to aerial defence, or to speak more correctly, the aeronautical branch of the military service, we have at present about 30 competent naval fliers and about 70 competent army fliers. When I use the word competent, I mean men who might reasonably be employed for long distance scouting...
On the west coast of the continent we find one of the most valuable of the materials for warlike preparation in the nitrate of northern Chile. This substance is not found in marketable quantities elsewhere, and is very necessary for the manufacture of explosives. In this connection it might be...
I should like to make a correction of the unverified statement, received "through indirect sources," that John Arthur Herbert '18 has been killed while fighting with the English forces in France, which appeared in your issue for Tuesday, March 6, and may have been misleading. This information is, I am...
Is it possible that the lessons obvious- ly enforced by our own history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart...