Word: dieingly
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...foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of "making merry, for tomorrow we die...
...better to be a young am in this generation than to have fought with Don Juan or with Godfrey in the Crusades. It is better to die, not knowing the culmination of these wars, yet playing a not ignoble part in them, than to have lived during a barren century of unepochal years...
Willaim Meeker died in France in that cause for which other fine lads have died. He went forth bravely, as he could not help but go. More than that a man may not do. The highest reverence goes to him who wins the proud right to die. But nothing may remake the broken years. The leadership, the inspiration, may not be gleaned from death...
...army officers detailed in Cambridge are to be ordered elsewhere by the War Department, for these men must be accorded the great measure of honor due to the success of the corps. But this honor is only increased when it is remembered that the corps is not going to die simply because those who are now at its head are to leave. The influence of Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon is a permanent one. They go with the best of military ideas instilled into their successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training...
...that is true, then surely even the least of those many valiant thousands of unknown men who die and who will die in battle, fighting to obliteration for an unselfish cause, is worth more to the world than the singer who will arise at some future day to tell in undying words of this huge...