Word: heroical
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...Marshal Foch began demonstrating his transcendant military genius on the Western Front last summer and the whole civilized world looked to him as the one power that could crush the German machine, a few men looked ahead and wondered if America would ever have the chance to welcome this heroic figure to its shores. We found ourselves thinking of the glorious reception he would receive from a grateful people. And now Representative Julius Kahn states that Foch is making plans to visit the United States within a few months. His coming will give this nation an opportunity to show...
...after another, our old acquaintances of the Propaganda are turning up in Germany, where their heroic but abortive efforts to poison the public mind in America have won them fame and preferment under every system of government. Bernstorff is a spared monument of the imperial regime, trusted by the Ebert government; so is Dernburg; and now we read that Dr. Albert, long the financial officer of the propaganda in this country, the feeder and sustainer of all the reptiles, big and little, has been appointed by the Ebert government as under-Secretary of State and given the direction...
...fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed...
...heat of battle Invariably produces a certain number of men who distinguish themselves by heroic service. The world has learned to expect such results from soldiers, and therefore it reads of the frequent awards for valor to them without surprise. The rarity with, which civiliane. receive such honors however, causes a much deeper impression upon the mind when these events do occur. Hence, America will pause longer and more approvingly than usual over the news that Frank Herbert Simonds '00, was decorated a knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris on Saturday...
...University. Forty-seven percent of--the men were commissioned as officers in the branch of the service in which they served, and 284 appear to date on they Roll of Honor of men who gave their lives in the service. One hundred and sixteen were decorated, for their heroic actions...