Word: longed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play, although several members of the cast are in the R. O. T. C., as the rehearsing has not interfered with the work of the training corps. "Believe Me, Xantippe," the play to be staged this year by the club, was the third Craig prize play and had a long run at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston, and with John Barrymore and Mary Young taking the leading roles, made a record run on Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines...
Company C: Cadet 1st Lieut., R. Anspach '19; Cadet 2d Lieut., P. Batchelder '19; Cadet Sgts., C. F. Donovan, F. M. Graves '20, T. M. Hicks '17, E. W. Long '17; Cadet Corps., K. O. Myrick '18, R. W. Sadler '18, F. C. Schley '19, T. A. Smith '18, E. P. Hamilton...
...autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes can be crossed, has been clearly seen. On the Austro-Italian front fighting has gone on in the midst of deep snows, avalanches, extreme cold, and violent storms. The Gallipoli campaign was carried on in the dry season and there was terrible...
...With regard to aerial defence, or to speak more correctly, the aeronautical branch of the military service, we have at present about 30 competent naval fliers and about 70 competent army fliers. When I use the word competent, I mean men who might reasonably be employed for long distance scouting and such other branches of military service in the air as have up till now been taught or practised on this continent...
...singing of a national anthem has so long been associated with patriotic devotion that its value to a state has become axiomatic. When the cave-men first banded together to enjoy community life, they surely selected some guttural sounds which signified that they were ever ready to defend that newly-formed union. And so in ancient, mediaeval and modern times, each country has had its stirring call to duty. No one can question the power which "La Marseillaise" or even "Deutschland Ueber Alles" have exerted over their respective peoples. The United States of America has selected the "Star Spangled Banner...