Word: forearm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Badges, medals, and ornaments. (a) No badges, medals or ornaments except those prescribed in General Orders 49 (1916) of the War Department will be worn. (b) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in blue on olive drab cloth of the shape and dimensions prescribed by the War Department. This badge will be worn by all members of the Corps. (c) The cap ornament is a bronze wreath with the letters R.O.T.C. in center...
...insignia except that prescribed will be worn. (b) Tactical instructors and cadets may wear badges and medals which have been awarded by the United States Government, but no other. (c) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in white on olive drab cloth as follows...
...substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...