Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course, the most visible result was a much heightened interest in the realm of science by the students. It was only after he announced, having allowed the proper dramatic pause to intervene, that Venus is a form of mussel which will be used for dissection purposes instead of the French snail, no longer procurable on account of the war, that the class settled down to the normal lecture room lethargy...
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...sector and their work has been admirably described by Mr. Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post of September 2. Our runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that...
...Verdun itself is absolutely deserted save for a few important looking gendarmes. Some streets and sections are completely laid waste, others alongside are untouched. As for German prisoners I saw about 50 or 75 in all. It was great sport to see the French soldiers surrounding a German prisoner or two, drawing their knives and slashing off buttons, shoulder straps, insignia--anything for a souvenir. We could look in vain for a hungry or weak looking German to best out stories of hardships. But they looked healthy, and, above all, greatly pleased that they were headed away from the lines...