Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scale arranged according to occupational intelligence standards ranks the engineer officers first; they are followed by army chaplains, medical officers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, civil engineers, accountants, etc. The lowest in the scale are the teamsters, general miners, cobblers, tailors, and laborers. It must be remembered that this is a ranking of such occupations in the Army and probably does not hold in general, for the most intelligent men of a certain trade may have been exempted from the draft on industrial grounds...
...companies who shot over Saturday and Sunday, K led, with a score of 116.7. M and L came next, nearly even, while I Company, with 109.1 had considerably the lowest average in the Regiment...
...special commission appointed by the Secretary of War as a branch of the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, to provide the best possible entertainment for men now in the National Army cantonments, and all military and naval camps on this side of the Atlantic, at the lowest possible price. This council is issuing books of tickets, somewhat like mileage coupons in use on the railroads, which, when sent to men at any of the service camps or cantonments in the United States, will enable them to attend the performances given at the Liberty Theatres...
...preferential ballot system will be used for all elections of officers. First, second, and third choices must be registered by the figures "1", "2", and "3". In counting the votes, a first choice counts one, a second two, and a third three, the candidates receiving the lowest total being elected. Any ballot on which all the candidates for office have not been voted upon will be declared invalid for that office. The Australian ballot sys- tem will be used in voting for members of the student Council...
...Eddy began by impressing on his hearers the grave situation of the Allied cause at present. "We are now at our lowest ebb," he said. "With Russia out of it, Italy's latest catastrophe is most serious. Our own American troops in France are a mere handful; we must get our million men across next spring...