Word: teutonic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regular service. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Pennsylvania in 1875, and graduated four years later. During the year 1902 he went to Europe with Generals Corbin, Young and Wood as guests of the Emperor of Germany, and prepared a report of the Teuton War Manoeuvers which these officers witnessed. General Johnston attained his present rank in the year of 1903, when he resigned from active service. He is now on active duty once more, and for the duration...
...sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them. All of which is their hard luck and not ours...
...Rathom is best known as the editor of the Providence Journal. Since the beginning of the war he has been strongly in favor of more thorough preparation, and has been very active in disclosing German propaganda. He has brought to light many schemes against the United States, plotted by Teuton spies...
...well as whole prisoners, just as they are brought up from the trenches. One I can't forget was a fragile kid, clammy white, and with eyes gaping in terror. He was so young, so frightened, and so hungrily sick--looking. How could one transfigure him into the ferocious Teuton of most accounts...
...often include passages that may arouse a latent love for the Fatherland, but this is not a sufficient cause for condemning the tongue. On the other hand, important reasons necessitate its retention. In the first place, many scientific and historical works used by the whole world were written by Teuton authors. Although the committee does not prevent men from studying these, yet it discourages younger scholars from reaching this store of knowledge. In the second place, men who know German are a military necessity now and will be of great benefit to the nation in the years after war. North...