Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This political situation has been increasingly clear to European statesmen for many weeks. They are closer to the heart of things than most Americans, and it has long been plain to them that the world was not going back to the old conditions that prevailed before the war. Many of them have no personal sympathy with this new state of affairs or liking for the inexorable facts of the case. They would much prefer to have the world drop comfortably back into the ancient order of things and be satisfied to let well enough alone, but they realize that...
...greater part of the second half the two teams fought back and forth, neither seven placing many shots near the opposing goal. Avery and Bigelow scored the final two points on skillfully played combination shots...
After fourteen months of service which earned for him and his commission, the publicly expressed gratitude of the Italian King and Pope, Major Guy Lowell '92, director of the Department of Military Affairs of the American Red Cross in Italy, is back in Boston. He has been awarded the Medal of Valor, which is the Italian counterpart of the Distinguished Service Cross, and also the Italian Military Cross, a military medal awarded for distinguished work on the Italian front...
...secretary of the society, E. B. Schwulst '19, said last evening that he thought the President would honor the University with his presence if he should return from France to Boston instead of New York. Mayor Andrew J. Peters '95 has already cabled the President, asking him to come back by way of Boston...
...Ridge were fought for most bitterly. Each river valley in northern France played a part in determining campaigns. The great strategy of Marshal Foch in the final drives, was laid out with a full knowledge and a full appreciation of the importance of geography. The German army was crowded back toward the Ardennes, through which there was but one narrow pass, the valley of the Meuse. The retreat of such a vast army through that gorge would be impossible and when the route of transportation east and west was cut the situation for the enemy was desperate. The physical features...