Word: arms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...custom has not changed. We are a sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs...
...Substitute the following: 1. In uniform covered or uncovered, but not in formation, officers and enlisted men salute military persons as follows: With arms in hand, the salute prescribed for that arm (sentinels on interior guard duty excepted); without arms, the righthand salute...
...third of the necessary amount for the gun, and its ammunition, and it is believed that the gun itself can be obtained before the four companies leave the range. Similar amounts raised from the other battalions would make it possible for each company to receive instruction with this important arm during its week at Wakefield...
...soldier consign his property to his dependents than in Government bonds. In so doing he insures them against the dangers of illy-invested capital and the waste of non-productive capital. In so doing he also in a way lays odds on his own strength of heart and arm and the strength of those hundreds of thousands who go to war with...
...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...