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Word: abroad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harry D. Sleeper, American representative of the American Ambulance Field Service, prophesies that the service will be widely extended in the next few weeks. Five more sections are contemplated, and to help man these ambulances new units will be sent abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMBULANCE MEN SAIL MONDAY | 2/17/1917 | See Source »

...democratic and enlightened method of deciding whether war or peace is our duty. What we are fighting against are the Prussian methods and spirit, which do at least seem to threaten Harvard's ideals of freedom and reason. We hate this Prussianism at home more than Prussian submarines abroad. This spirit has taken two marked forms already. I speak now of one only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinking, as Well as Fighting. | 2/17/1917 | See Source »

...less than 50 aviators in its army and less than 100 aviators within its borders immediately available for military work. At the ourbreak of the European war England, France, Russia and Germany each had some 500 aviators. Present estimates would indicate that there are now some 40,000 fighting abroad, and that this number is being increased daily. Aeroplanes have become almost as important to the modern army and navy as guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information as to Aerial Reserve. | 2/5/1917 | See Source »

Johann Sigurjonsson owes his fame as one of the younger generation of Icelandic dramatists largely to this stern tragedy of the North, which has been received so favorably in England, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Sweden. The success of the play abroad and the strong recommendation of the Scandinavian-American Foundation has prompted the Workshop to take advantage of this opportunity to develop the more sombre and serious technique of the drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 47 WORKSHOP PLAY TONIGHT | 1/26/1917 | See Source »

...countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were nowhere received as enthusiastically as in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

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