Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been in this sector, and while I cannot tell you exactly where I am, I can at least tell you that immediately north of me the Boches have been running like hell for three weeks. About midnight on the 14th of last month, the Germans started this drive in our sector, and never have I heard such a barrage. Last summer, when the section to which I was attached worked in the Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th of August, but this one seemed...
...machine gun, and a little later someone had killed this Boche. I hope that they will leave these Boches lying there for a year. It is terrible for the people who have to look at them, but these beasts are deserving of nothing better. After they had made this drive against our divisions, and at first had gained a little ground, they burried their own dead, and left all the others where they fell. Our boys, when they took this ground eight days later saw their comrades where they had fallen, with the result that the Americans take few prisoners...
Section 2 and 3 both have their bases on the plains close to the Piave River. The drivers of the third section had the severest work during the drive and twelve men were decorated from it. Tht Italian government has expresesd, deep appreciation of the services rendered by the ambulance drivers and has shown them every consideration. They were all made honorary 2nd lieutenants in the Italian army soon after their arrival...
...curtailed almost all activities which have no direct hearing on the present conflict. Old customs which had become Harvard's sacred traditions have passed out of existence. All this the undergraduate gladly accepts, knowing it to be the inevitable. Yet there is a danger that war hysteria may drive Americans to measures which are not marked by necessity. It is this consideration which demands reflection on the decision of the Faculty to substitute Class Day exercises in Sanders Theatre for those which have always taken place in the Stadium...
...German offensive once more sweeps forward and the scene of battle is again shifted to the Marne. On the very ground where the first great drive on Paris was turned, the Allies slowly give their ground. After four years of bitter struggle Germany is still able to concentrate forces and push her enemies back. The drive of the spring of 1918 must be regarded as one of the great wonders...