Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike all other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...
...linotype and serve many a luncheon club with heated discussion topics but it won't be long before the whole business is at a standstill. The rapid generation of new and less inclusive teams to satisfy the longings of those who wish to see their favorite on some battalion of honor needs but a season or two to produce the irreducible minimum. When the all eastern eleven becomes divided into an all Hanover team, an all Cambridge team, an all New Haven team, and so on down even to an all New Jersey team, the cravings of the boys...
...ended the six months' career of Sergey McTavish as mascot of the Seventh Battalion of Red Army Riflemen...
...This interesting battalion, composed of the students of the National Military Academy, arrived in this town on Tuesday forenoon, and encamped on the Common. Their progress to Framingham we have already noticed. Early on Monday morning they continued their march for the capital...
...eight minutes of four the proctorial staff concluded copying the examination into bluebooks, and in a few seconds the lost battalion was at work. At five minutes of four the writers on the main floor began to make departures of varying conspicuousness, continuing to do so until twenty minutes after four...