Word: details
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...methods of a great army preparing for a great offensive. Five miles back of the lines there was made a wonderfully constructed set of reserve trenches, protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready for any emergency. And the same was true even farther back. From a region handicapped by the lack of transportation facilities, it grew to a district interwoven with miniature railway lines. There was not a part of the lines that was not in direct touch with...
...Reserve Officers' Training Corps movement and Captain Constant Cordier laid great emphasis on the necessity of those who were interested in the welfare of the preparedness movement at the University bringing more undergraduates into the course. For every hundred men who engage in this work, the government will detail a non-commissioned officer to assist in carrying out the technical instruction...
...final detail of officers for the Harvard Unit will depend upon the number enrolled in the course. A small number will mean only one officer, whereas, if six or seven hundred signify their intention of taking the course, the appointment of two special officers will be certain. The spirit of service and patriotism which created the Harvard Regiment is still strong among Harvard undergraduates, and will unquestionably support the establishment of an officers' training corps unit at Harvard...
...Stadium, beyond a doubt, a band of coaches who are not thinking much at the present time about November, and what this man or that man may or may not do; they are teaching basic football along standard lines, plodding slowly, deliberately, working with infinite capacity for detail. It's a slow-grinding mill sometimes. The results may be dilatory and alarming; the preliminary games may often cause nightmare; even late October may afford food for foreboding; but in the end the system will have its way and a squad of men clad in crimson jerseys--among other garb--will...
...Berlin, has made this building in itself a condensed epitome of the course which art has taken in Middle Europe during the last nine hundred years. Without in the least laacking an organic unity or monumental impressiveness, the exterior of this building shows a rich diversity of structural detail, suggesting rather than copying motifs of numerous styles, from Karolingian austerity to Rococo playfulness. And the three main halls--the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Renaissance halls--into which the interior is divided are conceived in the same large, comprehensive spirit. Each of them is of distinct individuality and brings...