Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rate of 25 miles an hour against a 15-mile wind. These balloons, attached to a warship, are of immense value, as it makes it possible to sight the enemy many miles away and direct the shell-fire of the battleship towards the right point. Every ship and battery abroad is being equipped with similar observation balloons. They take the place of the old spherical type whose continual swaying and bobbing made it impossible to take correct observations, and in addition often made the operator seasick...
...considerable number of distinguished Latin Americans who would be instructing in France and Germany, were it not for the war. If we should begin our reciprocal visits now, a larger number of the southern continent's distinguished educators would come to the United States than when conditions abroad were normal...
...phase of the development of the University is of greater promise for the increase of breadth and influence than its growing cosmopolitanism. Not many years ago it was considered almost essential to the rounding out of a specialist in not a few departments that he complete his education abroad. In particular, training in the universities of Germany was thought indispensable. The new world was still going to school...
...Morton. Prince '75 will give a talk at the Harvard Club, Boston, this evening at 8.30 o'clock, on the moral effect of high explosives on the soldier as observed in this present war and the organization of the British Medical Service. Dr. Prince has but recently returned from abroad, where he has spent much of his time in the trenches and the hospitals of the English field service studying the effect of shell fire on the nervous systems of the men at the front...
...majority of those who go abroad to study have already completed their undergraduate work, and intend to complete their education here with graduate work in one of the large universities. The bulk of the men who will come to this country after the war will go to such institutions as Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Chicago...