Word: hand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many copies of all the important regulations issued by the War Department, including such books as the "Engineers' Field Manual," "Rules of Land Warfare," and "Landscape Sketching." A number of detailed maps of the western front are now on exhibition. There are also plans of the latest bombs and hand grenades and a collection of photographs illustrating trench life and warfare. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the Department of English, is in charge of the library...
...John Lavalle, Jr., '18, formerly president of the Lampoon, and now in training for the aviation service in England, was received recently by friends in Boston. Lavalle wrote the letter while in actual flight 5000 feet in the air, at the same time managing the controls with his left hand. The letter is also reprinted in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly...
...earth at all. I am 5000 feet in the air! All alone! The engine is making such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5000 feet, so I can run this 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think that I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters...
...Smooth again. I'm now at 6000 feet, still climbing. Tom is about 5000 feet, but passing directly under me. It's colder than all get-out up here now. So I'll have to put on my glove again and write with my left hand and drive with my right. This can't be done, so I'll stop writing for a minute...
...every person in the stand stood and shouted, while the men who fought for the flag and liberty more than fifty years ago paraded proudly, with eyes to the front and heads held high. Cheer upon cheer greeted the old soldiers, the women joining their voices, waving their hand-kerchiefs and giving the veterans the "Chatauqua salute." From start to finish of the parade, indeed, the battalion was in perfect step and alignment, and the proud standards were borne aloft without a hitch by three stalwart Grand Army...