Word: gulf
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...International Morse Code. Most of the men in training are from the regular Navy with approximately 600 of the naval reserve. Some are sent from ships, while others are ordered here from their places of enlistment. Many are enrolled from as far away as the Pacific Coast and the gulf states...
...college at the most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that...
...University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. University of Nevada, Reno, Nev.; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark University of Maine, Orono, Me.; St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.; The Citadel, Charleston, S. C.; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex.; Gulf Coast Military Academy, Gulfport, Miss.; Georgia Milliar College, Milledgeville, Ga.; State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash.; Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Stillwater, Okla...
...just jump to the night of August first, when we landed in Bombay. We found out right away that there wasn't much chance of our "going up the Gulf" to Mesopotamia for a few months, at least, because the staff there is now complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much...
...wonder why I am satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from...