Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of the Navy Department's decision to so equip its seaplanes undoubtedly aided the success of the enterprise, for the NC-3, lost in the sea and fog near the Azores, all her engines stalled, wet and cold, would never have been able to taxi into Ponte del Gads, under her own power without the assistance of mechanical means for starting her propellers...
...delivered from the drudgery of blue-pencilling copy-books, and have leisure for that serious work by which alone an university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means...
...lend your money to the Government, you may be quite sure that it is going to be used for some national purpose--to prosecute the war successfully, to care for, equip, arm, and supply our soldiers in France, to be used by our Navy in ridding the seas of the murderous U boats...
...invested in Liberty Bonds will equip an infantry battalion with rifles...
...will construct a base hospital with 500 beds, or equip an infantry brigade with pistols...