Word: lost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attack across the Marne on the river bank, and only fell back to our second line after 14 1-2 hours fighting, and when surrounded on three sides, due to retirement of troops to our flanks: held our positions from July 15 to 20, then retook what we'd lost, as far as the Marne which we crossed on the 22nd, pushing on about five miles in one day, then held for another day, waiting for the French on our right to catch up; then back to support for a few days; and back into it again on the Vesle...
Ensign L. C. Goodhue '11 has taken temporary charge of the Naval Unit at the University. Ensign J. G. Alley, who was appointed commandant for the school, has not yet reported, as his orders were lost in Washington and have not yet been recovered. Weld 31 has been selected for the Headquarters of the Unit...
...ever increasing casualty lists. Every section of the country, every state is included. Each time the supreme sacrifice seems to have been made by someone nearer home. Friends have fallen at Chateau Thierry, at Soissons, along the Vesle, and even in the camps of this country. The University has lost many sons; not only graduates, but classmates, students whom we have lived and worked with, comrades whom we have contested and competed with, men whom we now mourn with mingled feelings of sorrow and admiration. They gave all they ever had or hoped to have, to fulfill the call...
...have, since the outbreak of the war, listened to stories published in our newspapers telling of the superiority of one American doughboy to countless numbers of Germans. Yesterday we learned from one of the daily papers that the Americans on the Marne slaughtered one thousand enemy troops and lost but one man. All of which is cheering news, but somewhat ridiculous, and very few educated people can be expected to take much stock in such exaggerated reports...
...Games Won, 1 Games Lost...