Word: lieutenant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After office hours, during World War I, Plewman trained to become an officer, studied military tactics, earned a lieuten ant's certificate. He applied for overseas service, was never called. Plewman foresaw, before most military men, how World War I must end. On Jan. 2, 1918, he wrote: "Everything points to Germany and Austria-Hungary having tremendous and increasing difficulty in persuading their peoples to fight on. ... An enemy offensive on the Western Front this year would leave the enemy worse off than ever, and doomed to certain defeat." There was an offensive : it ended in defeat...
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