Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...reach at the right time. It is an old saying that men win battles on their stomachs. The morale of the line is much strengthened by physical well-being; and an officer who sees to it that his men are fed not only with ample nutrition but palatably will get better fighting service from them. Sanitary surveillance of food preparation and service is of great importance. In many wars more men have died of contagious disease than of wounds. Many battles on the other hand, have been lost by a failure of the supply of ammunition--not ultimate supply...
...main, the work of supply officers begins where that of the officers of the Quartermaster Corps ends. Though the supply officer of the line gets his supplies chiefly from the Quartermaster Corps, he has relations with other staff organizations, for he must handle other supplies and property sent to the line without passing through the Quartermaster Corps. This responsibility for goods and property received is one which no supply officer or quartermaster can take lightly. The Government is concerned not only to provide supplies and property but to get the maximum out of them. The Government demands strict accountability...
...feel that 13 or 14 of the 16 possible weeks should be spent on farms. Just when the men can get their furloughs is still in doubt. Most of them will want to be free in September, but that is the most important month of the fruit season and many of them will be needed then. At any rate it will be impossible for more than a fixed percentage of the men enrolled to be absent at a given time. Men leaving for the officers' training camps which will open in August will, of course, be excused when the time...
...clock was the dawning hour of the day, and the sun, the student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers had witnessed the phenomenon of dew upon the grass...