Word: chief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned as a dangerous alien enemy...
...that the dropping of intercollegiate athletics last spring was a mistake--a mistake resulting from the hysteria and enthusiasm which invariably accompanies the outbreak of war. Without some form of clean, wholesome amusement the morale of undergraduate existence is dulled and deadened, and football is one of the chief sources from which spring the most desirable and beneficial ideals of competitive sport. --Daily Princetonian
...will be within easy marching distance of the cantonment at Devens. Due to the interest taken by the officers of the Army in the University corps the authorities have been granted permission to make daily use of the trenches, grenade fields and all other facilities of the cantonment. The Chief of Staff and commandant of the O. T. C. at Camp Devens have assisted in furthering the plans for the corps' summer work by assuring the Military Office that they will supply officers of the French and British Military Missions, as well as American officers, to lecture before the corps...
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Applin, who is a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...
...There are two men who are absolutely necessary in this war if we are to win," continued the visitor, "one of these is the commander-in-chief, the other is the platoon leader. The former makes the plans for the army and issues orders. Then the various divisional, brigade, and regimental officers repeat these commands after camouflaging them in different ways. It is the platoon leader who carries out these orders, and he alone is responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should...