Word: blows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June, 1917, when Captain Cordier, the commanding officer of the Harvard R. O. T. C., who had done so much for military training at the University, was called to Washington, the regiment suffered a severe blow. The organization and preliminary training had, indeed, been ably accomplished, Colonel Azan and his distinguished associates were ready to begin their instruction; but arrangements for the Barre Camp which was to be the culmination of three months' intensive training had to be carried through Captain James A. Shannon, 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., took up the work as commanding officer and carried the difficult...
...Marne the German high-water mark of 1914 is again reached. This is a formidable fact. No one in the British or French councils cloaks it. The moment is one of terrible suspense; but the armies of liberty are still at their posts, and their blow will yet be delivered. --Boston Transcript...
...cadets will be expected to have luncheon before starting. Rations for the evening meal will be issued during the exercise. Recall will probably blow between 9 and 10 o'clock and the regiment is expected to reach Cambridge shortly after 11 o'clock...
...last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection of the British soldiers. Regardless of the loss of the Passchendaele Ridge before the city and the Wytschaete Ridge with Kemmel Hill on its south flank, the English battalions have matched German blow with British blow, German gain with British gain in the immediate environs of the city, and seem able to keep the Hun indefinitely from the Belgian city hallowed by so much British blood until the higher command shall order their advance or withdrawal...
...allied peoples can look forward to the result with confidence. The Germans must advance farther to win, whereas the Allies have but to hold their ground to defeat them. And beyond the certainty of merely parrying the enemy blow is the chance of inflicting a decisive loss on the outstretched and unsupported enemy lines by a counter-attack...