Word: forward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German offensive once more sweeps forward and the scene of battle is again shifted to the Marne. On the very ground where the first great drive on Paris was turned, the Allies slowly give their ground. After four years of bitter struggle Germany is still able to concentrate forces and push her enemies back. The drive of the spring of 1918 must be regarded as one of the great wonders...
There are important signs that the vast confusion and many mistakes of the early months of our participation in the war have been replaced by the efficiency of a more orderly administration. The shipping industry is moving forward and is now turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have...
...Training Corps because that gave them no military credit in the eyes of the Government. Hence the lure of the Aviation Corps or the Navy or the ranks of the army. In so far as the new plan will hold these youths within collegiate walls, it is a step forward; in so far as it turns all our colleges into military academies, it is regrettable, however inevitable it may be. As all men are probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop...
...gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every man who has the winning of this war at heart push this work forward.--From statement by R. Clipston Sturgis...
...that the war is just beginning as far as we are concerned. To the more fortunate applicants congratulations are unnecessary. We merely ask them in their enthusiasm not to forget the finals or the fact that a degree is a worth-while possession to cherish even when looking forward to the more popular commission...