Word: kept
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...above plan can be carried out, all men except those now in the infirmary will be discharged by next Wednesday at the very latest, although this is ten days sooner than orders require. The officers who have petitioned for honorable dismissal from the service, however, will probably be kept here until about the sixteenth, but every trace of the S. A. T. C. will be gone by the twenty-first...
...that men in the navy will also be released in large numbers. In view of these conditions, Harvard University has made prompt provision for the enrolment of students. This is possible from the fact that in addition to the military training, the ordinary academic organization and instruction have been kept in operation throughout...
Although hostilities have ceased in Europe, the truck drivers sent over by the American Red Cross will be still kept at work for an indefinite period, covering at least a year. Their work will consist largely in transporting food and clothing to the poor in the districts evacuated by the Germans, and in aiding generally in the reconstruction work...
...army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit has been kept secret...
...this is the war of movement--semi-open warfare--and the comforts of the trenches are unknown quantities, for to secure comforts requires time, and there has been no time to spare on such things in this sector--not since July 15. But if the Boche can be kept on the move, now they're started back, no one will kick about the rest of it, I'm sure...