Word: terrorisms
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...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...report has come that the reprisals undertaken by the British air fleets on German cities have been of value in shaking confidence and nerves. While we must not imagine huge crowds dashing about in a state of terror, yet it is extremely probable that reprisals, undertaken on a people tired and keyed up, have been effective in weakening their morale and increasing their desire for peace. To the English, air raids are a matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained...
...ever-increasing casualty lists of men failing in France, we have begun to give our lives. Pouring forth our dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people...
...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...
Somehow the cry of "On to Paris" has not the same terror as of yore; it is being more and more drowned out by the noise of new men and new guns steadily rolling eastward to the French front. Von Hindenberg's battle-cry is nevertheless worthy of consideration...