Word: career
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted only by a wound, leading to his honorable dismissal from the service. Anecdotes of other regiments and of brave comrades, tales of heroic deeds, and convincing description round out the tale...
Thousands of us who did not know Norman Prince personally have watched his career with great interest and have been thrilled by his courage and skill; and now that he has given his life to the cause of liberating France from oppression, we cannot feel that his name should not be commemorated in some enduring manner to serve as an example to the youth of the future...
Norman Prince was a sergeant-major in the French Aviation Corps, and one of the most famous of the American airmen fighting for the Allies in France. His death marks the end of a career of honor and distinction. Again and again he had been mentioned in the official reports for his bravery. He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire by the French government...
...used to describe Lucien Howe's new book. "Universal Military Education" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York). Dr. Howe has had valuable experience with young men of all ages and conditions, and, as he tells us in his preface, he soon learned in the course of his medical career "how much people might be improved by a little systematic training in promptness, exactness, restraint, efficiency and other soldierly qualities." And aside from the incalculable benefits to the individuals that should urge us toward, some system of military training. Dr. Howe, in a clear, concise manner, with no unnecessary language...
Baldridge, right tackle, and Yale's heavyweight wrestler, is the third 200 pounder. Behind the line Hutchinson is within five pounds of the 200-pound mark. During his career at Exeter and on the Yale freshman eleven he has been fast as well as a remarkable plunging back, and he has reported with promise of proving one of Yale's most powerful line-breakers. His brother, Guy Hutchinson, was a lightning quarter-back at Yale 10 years...