Word: juste
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Sumner Sewall '20, of Bath Me., according to dispatches just received from France, on Monday shot down an enemy two-seated airplane inside the American lines northwest of Toul. Six German and three American planes participated in the encounter. After a running fight from an altitude of 500 meters...
Sewall left the University for overseas in 1917, first entering the ambulance service. In December he applied for service with the American Army and began training as an aviator. At the time of his exploit he had been in the active flying service just three weeks.
However, the team has been affected by the war just as have other sports, and has not shown former University calibre.
The University, having been given the choice of courses, rowed that on the west which gave Yale the longer turn on the last bend in the river just above the last half-mile flag. This advantage was balanced, however, by the heavier shell in which the Crimson was forced to...
"Just as the spirits of their dead heroes watching over them urged on the French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne to hurl back the invading hordes, so must the spirits of our glorious heroes who faced a splendid and cruel death unflinchingly, lead us to consecrate our all...