Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many men have been sent into active service in various branches of the Naval Service here and abroad, since the School's opening in April, and an average of 100 men graduate each week and are immediately transferred to assignments...
...dollar of the fund is to be devoted to actual construction of the buildings, to their equipment, and to circulation of the reading matter. Not a cent will be used for any other purpose than for supplying libraries and reading rooms for the soldiers and sailors, at home and abroad, and for the sick and wounded...
...applicants accepted will be sent abroad immediately to be trained, and will be on duty as soon as they have completed their course of study satisfactorily. The work in training will be in dirigible flying as well as in aeroplane, in captive balloon flying, map drawing, etc. While in this work the men accepted will have the rank of second-class seamen, and should they pass their examination at the end of a period of about three months, they will receive commissions as ensigns...
...enough to say that the earth goes hungry, and that all our resources are needed to feed it. It is well enough to awake the nation to the duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need for imagination, but rather for truth, for comprehension and justice in foretelling...
Whether or not the unit will engage in truck transportation work while abroad depends upon the decision of Dr. A. P. Andrew '95, inspector-general of the American Field Service, for he has been requested by the French Government to enlist as many as possible of the men in his ambulance corps in the French truck service. It is on account of the participation of some of the members of the American Ambulance Field Service in such truck work that the organization has just changed its name to the American Field Service...