Word: gun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second at 4 o'clock, to receive instruction in grenade throwing. The other three platoons will report for instruction in Sever 11, the second at 3.30, the third at 4 and the fourth at 4.30 o'clock, for additional instruction in the automatic rifle and machine gun...
...Machine Gun Section will meet at Military Headquarters...
...sadly mutilated, and Turkey would be a mere wreck. Nevertheless, these terms are a good standard to set, they are well worth fighting for, but before we can expect to see them realized and not just idealistic hopes, we shall have to argue with the Kaiser by word of gun, not solely by conferences and newspaper reports...
...work, and most opportune, coming at the time of one of the worst periods of cold which the East has experienced. The foresight of the Massachusetts Forestry Association in arranging this expedition must not escape commendation. This society made it possible for men, who were unable to carry a gun, to swing an axe for their country. The Harvard Corps of Woodchoppers is a body which ranks with the most efficient and patriotic organizations of Cambridge students. It has helped to keep warm the citizens for whose protection other men are fighting...
...brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice." Expertness with a sub-calibre rifle on a college rifle team would put a man through this training even before he had entered actual military life...