Word: aims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...calibre rifles and short ranges cannot make anyone an expert, but they develop a true eye, a steady hand and a reliable trigger-squeeze. Shooting Boches requires more skill than can be acquired on Soldiers Field, yet beginners may learn the rudiments, and experienced marksmen may improve their aim. The student who practises with rifle or bayonet furthers his own military prospects, and, at the same time, obtains exercise and recreation...
...This was the fact that was uppermost in our minds when the news came that Jerusalem had fallen. At present we are thinking more of how to defeat Germany than anything else. The capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress in our aim. We did not intend to slight so great a race as the Jewish people, one which is doing so much in this struggle, but our pleasure over the Allies securing a firmer foothold in Palestine went far beyond racial bonds. Success is our first consideration in all war questions...
...initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer men and guns from another portion of the front. The stand taken by the press at the time of the Marne to the effect that a real defeat had been suffered and that it should be retrieved by yet harder fighting, no longer seems...
...last invited M. Clemenceau to form the new cabinet. From the beginning of the war the "Tiger of France" has resolutely abstained from co-operating with any political group, sitting aside and criticizing whatever government happened to be in power. His efforts have been destructive rather than constructive in aim and in result. But in spite of this inability to work with others, Clemenceau is a terrific driving power, a masterful organizer, and an extreme anti-German patriot. During his former stay in office as Prime Minister, he ruled France with an iron hand, cowing the Chamber into submission...
...aim of 47 Workshop is to produce plays before a critical audience, so that the authors may remodel their works from the suggestions which every member of the audience is expected to make. The organization has thus proved of value to the conduct of English 47 and 47a in the past years...