Word: depending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Changed methods of warfare and German thoroughness make such a trap improbable. Charles XII and Napoleon lived on the land through which they passed; but Hindenburg's army would have to depend on a base of supplies well in the rear. For this reason, the line of communications is not so apt to be neglected as in former campaigns. The Teutons have followed their advances by an adequate and efficient system of railways. Furthermore, the large number of forces involved renders impossible a separate incursion involving only a small portion of the troops. Security demands that no section...
Those men who now are preparing for their departure to fight the enemy which desolates France, keep with them the responsibility of those non-combattants who at home depend on them for existence. In no surer way may a soldier consign his property to his dependents than in Government bonds. In so doing he insures them against the dangers of illy-invested capital and the waste of non-productive capital. In so doing he also in a way lays odds on his own strength of heart and arm and the strength of those hundreds of thousands...
Lieutenant Ross, U. S. A., representing the War Department, will be in Cambridge today and tomorrow for the purpose of officially inspecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. Upon the report which he will make to the authorities at Washington will depend in large measure the rating which the Corps will receive from the War Department...
...fulfillment of his efforts on the General Staff may not be foreseen. On the wisdom of that body depend many American lives spent through months of warfare. We believe that Captain Cordier will add strength in its deliberations, breadth of view, and adaptibility to new conditions of martial science...
...foster commerce, Europe faces actual hunger. Great nations are knowing the failure of sufficient nourishment to feed their peoples. In three years of war the most powerful races of the earth have been reduced from a state of astounding opulence to a condition where their very lives may depend upon their ability to obtain food. In such a condition of universal and terrible lack, which is the forerunner of starvation, the United States, whose resources our rhetoricians are fond of calling unlimited, is called upon to give nourishment that the whole world world may live...