Word: locals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...responsibility does not end there. This war is not Italy's war alone. It is the war of all the Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated, it is bound to result in local successes by the Germans, who coordinate everything--who control every detail and every portion of their far-flung line from a central and single source. --Boston Transcript...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...
...local committee of the National Security League has expressed the desire that a large delegation from the University be present at the "Win the War Meeting" in Tremont Temple at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Its purpose will be to arouse national enthusiasm and a closer interest in the war. The Hon. John L. Bates is to preside, and Governor McCall will speak. The other speakers are the Hon. James M. Beck of New York and Dr. John Douglas Adam. Mr. Beck is the author of "The Evidence of the Case" and other war documents. Dr. Adam has been...
...payment; by installments under the government plan; 2 per cent. on application; 18 per cent, on November 15, 1917; 40 per cent. on December 15, 1917; 40 per cent. on January 15, 1918, with accrued interest on deferred installments. A third method of payment has been arranged with the local Cambridge banks: two per cent. on application, and, in the case of a $50 bond, $7 per month for 7 months, or in the case of a larger bond, a proportionate increase in the amount payable each month. A plan has also been formulated by which a group...
...spare about two hours a day at times suiting their convenience during the next two weeks to assist the machinery of the campaign among those citizens. The work will not consist of actual canvassing nor speech-making, but in directing and encouraging the efforts of the local committees. This will give men who are not in active military service and those who cannot buy bonds an opportunity to aid materially in this government movement...