Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms, but they will also have bad habits to conquer...
...subject causes un-intentional blindness to the merits of others, as we are silently contented to make few comments on beneficent results, or because a steady success attracts only casual attention, we over-emphasize the mistakes. There do exist, nevertheless, numerous causes for satisfaction, which deserve favorable criticism no less than others deserve unfavorable...
...puck near the Wanderers' goal most of the time. The first score came at the end of seven minutes and 40 seconds, when N. S. Walker '20 caged the puck by a back-hand shot at the finish of a rush down the rink with the informal forwards. Less than a minute later Burkhart, the Wanderer's right wing, carried the puck beyond the informal forwards and by a long shot past the defence scored the only goal for his side and the last one of the evening. From then until the close of the first period, the stellar work...
...enroll all who have reached their majority. That men between 20 and 22 years of age make enthusiastic, efficient soldiers needs no proof, nor can the authorities at Washington be ignorant of this fact. Not only do they show as much skill in fighting, but they also are less likely than older recruits to have dependents. Comparatively few have progressed so far in business or in any profession that their prospects of future success are seriously diminished. By enrolling men as they come of age the War Department will always have within easy reach a large number of recruits well...
Coincident with Putnam's feat, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., also of the Escadrille, downed two German aviators within a short time, his first victories in the air. Details of these combats have not yet been received in Paris. Both Hitchcock and Putnam have been on the battle front for less than three months and have not yet been transferred to the American Army...