Word: limited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank of captain. His regiment...
...small library is worked within an inch of its limit morning, noon and night; the school is growing, and concerts and lectures crowd the hall four nights in the week...
...hour. The Bowl is located a mile and a half from the centre of the city so that it will take nearly an hour to reach the field, as traffic will be much slower than usual. This will tax the transportation facilities on railroad and trolley lines to the limit. Entrance to the Bowl is designated on each ticket by the portal number and everyone should make sure that he enters by the portal indicated...
Blind patriotism is as great a factor as any in the present devastation of Europe. Nations unreasoningly believe that right and the God of right war together with them, but somewhere there must be a limit to the desirability of unreasoning loyalty...