Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...however, there are in this nation a number, small but hardy, of men who by unpolitic fate have been born to a land with which they have no sympathy, we should not with harsh restriction prevent them from seeking the lands of their hearts desire. A hundred million people may not bind their hands in weakness that a hundred men should live free from the perils of valiant service. But the hundred...
...medical staff needs brave men. Where the foremost men in the charge go, there the doctor follows, bringing what succor he may to the wounded. In the trenches, out in the wastes of No Man's Land, on ships of the line, on hospital boats, the doctors of all nations are present with the bearers of arms, meeting, if need be, death with equal fortitude. The mortality among those who do not strive to inflict wounds, but to heal them, has been notably great. There is chance here for our young men of spirit to accomplish at once a brave...
Since then, insofar as advices go, the submarine menace does not seem to have been finally throttled. No fortresses, no armies, have been overturned. We still use the former means of destroyers, chasers, and nets against the sea peril; and battles on land are still fought as they have been fought, with men and iron, and yet more...
...corps will land at Bordeaux by the 10th of the month, it is expected; and from this port it will be transferred to Paris. There the customary period of preparation and instruction in driving will be spent, after which the unit will be dispatched to the front and its vicinity for work in the base and field hospitals...
...line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...