Word: led
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...orders will mean, however, is that the men assigned to Camp Devens will have a slightly longer wait for their commissions than if they had been detailed to Camp Grant. That their ability will eventually be recognized there is little doubt; officer-candidates from the Unisity have always led in infantry O. T. C.'s and the men formerly classed as Quota A are men above the former standard. If they feel themselves underestimated it would be well for them to recall the words of a famous American General, who remarked, when detailed to the obscurity of a Kansas cantonment...
...interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible, as are political bodies. But the errors of centralization are in no way comparable to those of partisanship. Lloyd George stands as a great figure who has led his country well. His principles are sound and his results as good as can at this time be expected. To change horses in midstream is in any case poor policy. At such a crisis in the war, Englishmen are obligated to take no steps which may interfere with its successful...
...British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack led by the crack regiments of the Prussian Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove...
...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
...patriotic and historic point of view, occurred when the battalion of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic marched up. Tremont street and approached the densely-packed stand at the corner of Boylston street. As soon as the old Boys in Blue came in sight (they were led by a drummer who was also a veteran of the Civil War), 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...