Word: expert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Much has appeared in our newspapers recently to the effect that the belligerent Allies are getting thoroughly tired of the war. Correspondents who are supposedly expert diagnosticians of national and international ailments attribute this symptom to the state of affairs in Russia. They feel that the present opposition of the Slav to this war and the utter chaos in his country are crystalizing anti-militaristic feeling in the other nations, and that this situation may bring about a speedy peace...
...this course a total of 253 out of the possible 300 is necessary to secure ranking as expert rifleman; 238 is needed for the grade of sharpshooter, and 202 for that of marksman. A first class man is one who shoots at least 177, and a second class man 152; men shooting lower than that number are unqualified...
...longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields...
...range there are facilities for men to shoot at 200, 300, 500, 600 and longer ranges at the same time. It is probable that after sufficient practice each man will shoot his "record," by the result of which he will be classed as a marksman, a sharpshooter, or an expert rifleman...
...following are branches in which expert knowledge will be of service: Aviation, Business Administration (quartermaster), Chemistry, Dentistry, Divinity (chaplains), Engineering, En- tomology (camp pests, etc.), Law (Judge Advocate General's Department), Medicine and Surgery, Metallurgy, Meteorology, etc., Navigation, Sanitation, Seismology, Telegraphy and Wireless, Topography (under U. S. Geological Survey, War Department Division), Transportation, Veterinary Science. In addition it may be suggested that business men of good experience in handling problems of supply, transportation, labor, etc., are well suited to enter the Quartermaster's Corps...