Word: generally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...appointment of Professor Felix Frankfurter, of the University Law School, as an assistant to Secretary Baker of War, has been announced. Professor Frankfurter was former assistant attorney general, and was among the first to offer his services to the Government for the war. He has been aiding the War Department already for several weeks in adjusting labor disputes...
Today Lieutenant Ross will devote to an investigating of the program and method of training, and to a general inspection of each of the companies at work. The detailed inspection of each man's arms and equipment will be held on Soldiers Field tomorrow morning...
...fulfillment of his efforts on the General Staff may not be foreseen. On the wisdom of that body depend many American lives spent through months of warfare. We believe that Captain Cordier will add strength in its deliberations, breadth of view, and adaptibility to new conditions of martial science...
...committee of arrangements has decided to require no invitation to the conference, which will therefore be open to the public. This attitude was taken in view of the general interest and extreme importance which the conference should play in future educational methods...