Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When Foch was first offered the command of the French Army he refused unless he could have control of the entire front. He could have chosen no better way to hasten the single Allied Command, that has now given to him and the armies of the Allies their great opportunity to crush the hitherto invincible Hindenburg...
...fight this afternoon with a young French officer and managed to stay on his tail most of the time. He wasn't so good as some of the others. You do things you never could imagine and go tumbling about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till...
...casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable gain. A glance at the map, however, shows the importance of these events to be just the reverse. In editorials and in the presentation of all news, the glory and success...
Song leaders have been chosen from each of the Freshman halls as follows: Gore, William MacNeill Rodewald, Jr.; Smith, Alden French; Standish, Seymour Wadsworth. The leaders will be aided in handling their choruses by pianists from each building and by several upperclassmen. The accompanists who have been selected by the jubilee committee are Paul Tishman for Gore, and Wendell Davis for Standish. The pianist from Smith will be announced tonight...
Premier Clemenceau said, "I know the French peasants well. They ask me one thing, 'Will we win?' Assuredly, I say. 'Then we will go on,' they answer...