Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...under the guidance of the French Officers is rapidly nearing completion. All of the excavation is completed except a few points in the first line, and in one of the boyeaux, and the men are now engaged in performing the finishing details which will make the trenches habitable. The ever difficult problem of drainage is being met in the several ways adopted on the Western front, floor gratings are being constructed and placed and weak portions of the trench walls are being braced and reenforced. After the return of the third battalion from Wake-field combat exercises will be held...
...latter part of the month for the benefit of the Red Cross and the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps is an event of more than passing moment. In point of fact, and entirely aside from the objects, it will be one of the most magnificient outdoor dramatic productions ever seen in this section of the country...
...first Regiment was formed, until now, Captain Cordier has been in charge of instructing Harvard men in the science of war. When he was first detailed at the University, our nation was at peace, and few men, even the wisest, thought the possibility more than remote that we should ever get in the German war. We still talked in terms of Mexico, and wondered whether we had an army sufficient to regulate to the law of stability that revolutionary state. As a nation we had no conception of the way a great power must make...
...Nation has been prospering largely in a financial sense through this war, and perhaps the farmers, as a class, have prospered more than anybody, but many manufacturers also have prospered. In consequence, we have the largest pile of gold that the world ever saw, according to the statisticians, it being $3,600,000,000. A great deal of gold or gold paper is in the pockets of people all over the country and doing no good. The large banks, corporations, and capitalists are buying these bonds in large blocks, but, inasmuch as this is a democracy, every man having...
...Officers' Reserve Corps, medical, quartermaster, etc.; 9 are in the Naval Reserve Force; 13 hold commissions in the regular army, navy, and marines; and the remaining 18 are members of the militia of the various states. The list of fields of service in the non-military line is ever more extended. The Council of National Defense, the American Red Cross, and the Belgian Relief Committee are served by the majority of the 57 men under this division, but the various boards at Washington, such as the Shipping Board, the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Board, etc.; the Massachusetts Committee on Public...