Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sectors we do all our work at nigh without lights and at a fair risk. It's all chance, anyway. If the Germans land a shell in the dark on general theory that something ought to be on that road, at that spot, at that time, and you are there-you get it. That's all. But there are lots of roads and they are long Some cross-roads get special attention right along, and that brings me to tell you of an incident that happened the other night...
...undergraduate members of the Harvard Flying Corps, which was organized last year, secured their licenses at the Curtis School of Aviation this summer. Flying in the Curtis biplanes of the J N R type the students were instructed in the various forms of land flying under the supervision of Lieutenant Phillips Roder of the British Royal Flying Corps. The school was admirably equipped with six machines and competent instructors and mechanics...
...backers of the summer camp idea, Colonel Roosevelt. "These camps," he says, "are the entering wedge for a system of universal and obligatory military training for universal and obligatory military service." The word "obligatory" always has and probably always will irritate certain kinds of American citizens, the flag-waving, "land-of-the-free" singing kind. To them it savors of imperialism, largely because the most imperialistic of all nations has obligatory military training...
...Harvard today leads in total enlistments and Harvard must continue and increase this lead. It is only through training, obligatory if need be, but serious training at any rate, that the colleges as a whole and Harvard in particular can further the great scheme of keeping America "the land of the free," and making it "the home of the prepared...
...gift from Coleman duPont late in 1911 paid for the land. The architect was selected in May, 1912, W. W. Bosworth of New York. The plans were announced in November, 1912, and the first run of concrete was made in April...