Word: franco
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examples by Marcellus Koffermans, Girard David, Quentin Metsys and Jan Gossart--called Mabuse. Several of the so-called minor Flemish artists are represented by the anonymous Master of the Legend of St. Ursula; the Antwerp Master from Hoogstraaten, Joachim Patinir, Joose van Cleef, Colun de Loter, and the Franco-Fleming, Jan Prevost...
...Capture of Combles Ends Brilliant Campaign," was the headline The Charleston News and Courier placed over its account of that Franco-British victory. The phraseology gives one a start, but it is quite correct; this war has altered the meaning of words old as the language. It was a campaign for the possession of Combles; and this campaign was an incident of what? The battle of the Somme. What was a battle before this extraordinary war began? An incident in a campaign. What is a campaign now? An incident of a battle...
Machine guns were first used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
...Myron T. Herrick, the United States ambassador. They also visited the home of Fernald Baldensterger, the newly appointed French exchange professor to Harvard. A series of dinners were given in President Lowell's honor by James H. Hyde, director of the University of Paris, the Harvard Club, and the Franco-American Committee, at which Premier Barthou and other members of the cabinet and distinguished scholars of France were present...
This year, through the help of the Franco-America Committee of New York and Paris, special courtesies will be extended by Mayors, Railroads, and other Public Officials. Also in each city to be visited, professors and other leading men have volunteered their services as guides...