Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth course will be by H. Charles Woods, F.R.G.S., author of "The Danger Zone of Europe," "La Turquie et ses Voisins," etc., late Military Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Evening News, on "War and Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays...
Does the cautious Vermont farmer prefer the safety of hoarding his wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...
...their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid, by perjury or any means that will not harm their mortal lives, the imminent danger which goes with battle? If they are alive in twenty years, will they face the memory gladly of that which they might have done, and left undone? Will they find the life they have lived so all surpassing lovely? And they, the very cowardly, will they go to meet death...
...course in such service there is more opportunity for accident or fatality. The peaceful are not spared by the blind wrath of artillery fire, nor do submarines pay homage to the Red Cross. Yet such added danger over the surety of life in peace at home will count not at all with those whose faith is so far above that granted to most poor mortals...
...later army order said: "American Section No. 5 (Norton-Harjes) has made possible during a period of 11 days of fighting, March 8 to 19, with a perfect contempt of danger the removal of wounded in a zone heavily swept by the enemy's artillery fire. Furthermore, the whole staff has shown proof of remarkable devotion and endurance by giving the maximum service of the unit, and by working an average of 19 hours...