Word: amid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...render in time of war. Here was a group of men who recognized a problem which their training could solve. They established the Harvard Hospital Unit in France eighteen months before our country deemed it necessary to put her resources and training to this problem. Since July, 1915, amid hardships and dangers untold, while other such units were established and abandoned; these men cared for the wounded and sick...
Business Resumed Amid Ruins...
...floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some way to salute that flag?" a feminine voice was heard to ask, somewhere amid the shoulders round about...
Aside from the motto, the cover is attractive; the decorative design is simple and dignified, and the color scheme harmonious. Amid bursting shrapnel stands the Red Cross, partially hidden by branches of laurel and by a gleaming sword. The motto alone is weak. It is hard to see how one could have made a poorer choice than the singsong couplet...
...Near East of the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The loss of the leader of the British forces in Mesopotamia is a blow which will be felt on two continents: in Europe, where his repeated successes against the Turks were the one bright ray of hope amid a policy of bungling; and in Asia, where his name and fame were the admiration, if not the idol, of the natives...