Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Stanley Conklin Swift...
Stanley Conklin Swift, Gr. '15-16, a private in Co. D, 59th Inf., died from wounds on Oct. 4, 1918, in France. He went to the front in the middle of July, and on the 19th of that month was wounded in the thigh and hand. For five weeks he remained in a hospital and was then sent to a replacement camp. He returned again to the front and was later reported, missing. The official telegram reports that he died from wounds. Swift had been recommended for promotion to corporal in July, just before he was wounded...
Eliot Junior B:--B., Swift; 2, White; 3, Wheatland; 4, Koenig; 5, Brown; 6, Greene; 7, Brooks; S., Smith...
...been awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valor for saving the life of a British aviator who was drowning in the Brenta River. After two Italian soldiers had been drowned in an attempt to rescue him, Wharton swam out to the aviator who was floundering in the swift current, and supported him until they reached shore. This medal is one of the highest awards given to foreigners by the Italian government, and can only be won by exceptional bravery...
...with possessions in Asia, in the North Pacific, in the Caribbean, in Central America, simply cannot carry out a policy of isolation. Nor can the richest country in the world, with enormous products and exports, with nearly fifteen million foreign born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables and wireless, now a creditor in thousands of millions, to many European governments, owner of immense values in foreign securities, keep out of the complications of modern industrial and economic life...