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Word: farness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cadet privates are far too lax in observing this obligation. Cadet officers feel compelled to be lax in demanding its observance. It is a small thing; but many small things mark the mediocre from the good officer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAY UNTO CAESAR | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

Section meetings will also be held, commencing today, so that the theoretical side of the training will become more individual than it has been so far. These sections will be under the direction of men thoroughly familiar with the theory of military science and will be held twice daily at 8 and 1.30 o'clock, lasting an hour each. Thus, for this week, the physical drill will be reduced to six hours and greater attention paid to the knowledge of the prescribed text-books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAPID PROGRESS MADE | 5/21/1917 | See Source »

...Compulsory military training in the Argentine Republic is working out most successfully. It is far superior to any voluntary system which has been tried and does not work the hardships attendant upon ordering out militia in time of impending trouble. Argentina has had this compulsory system since 1901, and through it has trained an enormous number of able-bodied men to serve with the colors in time of war. Under the stringent physical examinations provided under the law a man with the slightest defect is excused from military service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARGENTINE COMPULSORY MILITARY SYSTEM IS APPLICABLE FOR U. S. | 5/19/1917 | See Source »

...when we know that men in this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLAYIN SOJER" | 5/19/1917 | See Source »

...United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" Today, as in the days of the Civil War, this sort of blasphemy is scarce, yet a new feeling has come into vogue, quite as dangerous as that of the "man without a country," and far more widespread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HATS OFF" | 5/16/1917 | See Source »

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