The North American Review, Band 209University of Northern Iowa, 1919 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Verdun , she began her second great effort to break through the Allied lines , but this also was a complete failure . And on March 21 , 1918 , she tried for the third time to smash through the lines and to resume a war of movement , but ...
... Verdun , she began her second great effort to break through the Allied lines , but this also was a complete failure . And on March 21 , 1918 , she tried for the third time to smash through the lines and to resume a war of movement , but ...
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... Verdun , Toul , and Belfort . But particularly because of Belfort , which commands the narrow pass into France between the Vosges and Jura range of mountains . Had the Germans been able to capture this fortress , the way would have been ...
... Verdun , Toul , and Belfort . But particularly because of Belfort , which commands the narrow pass into France between the Vosges and Jura range of mountains . Had the Germans been able to capture this fortress , the way would have been ...
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... Verdun , the treaty of peace that will be signed in Paris should be in any other tongue than French . Translations may and should be made in every other idiom , but in accordance with a tradition that goes back centuries , the original ...
... Verdun , the treaty of peace that will be signed in Paris should be in any other tongue than French . Translations may and should be made in every other idiom , but in accordance with a tradition that goes back centuries , the original ...
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... Verdun . For a year and a half following the attack at Verdun , the Allies seem to have outnumbered the Germans by several hundred thousand ; but the total collapse of Russia in No- vember , 1917 , permitted Germany to strengthen ...
... Verdun . For a year and a half following the attack at Verdun , the Allies seem to have outnumbered the Germans by several hundred thousand ; but the total collapse of Russia in No- vember , 1917 , permitted Germany to strengthen ...
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... Verdun . This attack was one of the most sustained and formid- able in history . For five months the German Crown Prince tried to break through the line at this point . In repeated and most desperate assaults , at the expense of ...
... Verdun . This attack was one of the most sustained and formid- able in history . For five months the German Crown Prince tried to break through the line at this point . In repeated and most desperate assaults , at the expense of ...
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Seite 325 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Seite 603 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Seite 325 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 519 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Seite 92 - The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky...
Seite 283 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Seite 439 - For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear. But now it has fallen from me, It is buried in the sea; And only the sorrow of others Throws its shadow over me.
Seite 278 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Seite 91 - Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in his hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God : see all, nor be afraid ! ' Not that, amassing flowers, Youth sighed, ' Which rose make ours, Which lily leave and then as best recall ? ' Not that, admiring stars, It yearned, 'Nor Jove, nor Mars; Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Seite 34 - Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.