Word: careful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...camp at Fort Myer, Va., will be open for applicants from the New England States, Fort McPherson, Ga., will take care of New York city and contiguous territory, and also certain of the other southern states. The greater part of New York state, however, as well as most of Pennsylvania, and three more southern states, have been allotted Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Other camps will be located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Fort Logan H. Root, Ark.; Fort Leon Springs, Tex.; Fort Riley, Kansas; and the Presidio, San Francisco, California...
There is no reason why any accident should occur. Daily in Europe millions of men handle firearms in the most deadly way. Yet by the use of a small amount of care, accidents--in the sense of self-inflicted casualties--are almost unknown. With the same reasonable care there will be no mishaps next week...
...arguments of those opposed to a liberal education are at times so plausible, and backed by the material worth of commercialism, are so forceful, as to warrant the utmost care in refutation. The dislike for hard work, and the love of an easy course of life are frequently the real forces which back the arguments of those who stand for merely practical instruction...
...Recruit Detachment" in which all recruits who have had little or no military experience are placed. Formerly the new men were distributed throughout the four companies, but as this system held back the men who had been drilling several days, the Recruits' Detachment was started this week to take care of the inexperienced men. The recruits will be trained until they are considered sufficiently well drilled to join the other companies when they will probably be distributed in the provisional battalion. At present, Mr. Blake who has charge of these men is drilling them in the elements of close order...
...care" attitude of the citizen who has never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed...