Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the outbreak of war in 1914, Dr. Mott has visited all five battle fronts, Western, Eastern, Italian, Balkan, and Mesopotamian. He has viewed the fighting forces of all the belligerent European nations except Turkey, in action, and has visited Germany three times during the war; because of his high position in international affairs he has had opportunities seldom enjoyed of analyzing the moving forces and actual conditions of the Central Powers as well as of the Allies...
Since the beginning of the war especially, Dr. Mott has turned his attention to the international situation in Europe, and has been able by his visits to all the belligerent countries except Turkey to get in touch with the leading figures of both the Allies and the Central Powers...
...full of needy, suffering men, a Y. M. C. A. secretary appeared serving out hot coffee on the ridge within half an hour after it was stormed, before the line was yet consolidated. 'Everybody else was lying flat in that rain of bullets," one of the officers said, 'Everybody except just that secretary; and the sight of him standing alone, forgetting everything except the men he was risking his life to help is what gave religion...
...Pursuant to the recommendation of its Commander all cadet appointments in the 2nd battalion of the Regiment except Captains, sergeant-major, 1st sergeants and supply sergeants are revoked and the following appointments announced in their places, effective on and after November...
...Pursuant to the recommendation of its Commander all cadet appointments in the 3rd Battalion of the Regiment except Captains and the sergeant-major are revoked and the following announced in their places, effective on and after November...