Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early part of the war Magoun left College to drive an ambulance on the French front at Verdun and Champagne. He remained in that service for some time, but returned to College. He stayed here until last February, when he went to England and enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps...
...company with the nation-wide "drive" for the sale of the "Smileage Books," a campaign to aid in this sale has been organized in the University. This week and part of next have been designated by the Military Entertainment Council for the special sale of these books and the students of the University have been asked by the Council to back the "drive" as they have backed the Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns. Posters are being distributed by a committee apointed for this work and the "Smileage Books" will be placed on sale at the CRIMSON Building on Plympton...
...methods employed in the great work of the Army and Medical Corps of the world, and at least as much space would be needed to describe with any completeness the vast body of scientific knowledge and skill used in the engineering feats that are witnessed almost daily when a drive is in progress. To move forward the vast armies with which we are familiar in the war conditions of today and to move them forward, as is, of course, necessary, with proper speed and with proper support, is in itself a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every...
...into the balance of the present deadlock to bring about a decisive victory. By spring our troops and ordnance should be ready to go abroad, by summer we should have a huge fleet of fighters with which to supply our Overseas Force, by October or November the first American drive should be on. We cannot expect an immediate advance on Berlin; but few of our troops have had their baptism of fire, and the war game must be learned...
...little compared with the great work of relief carried on by the Red Cross in hospitals and battlefields, and among the civilian population in war-ridden France and Serbia and Italy and Roumania. However, it brings a thrill of pride to Americans and emphasizes the fact that the present drive for new members is simply another means afforded the people to aid this great cause. --Boston Herald...