Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...volleying crash of rapid fire and the reiterated drumming of the machine gun instilled in those men who had not yet acquired it the knowledge that war is not altogether a matter of files on parade. Not a great deal of battle thrill was given to any save men with a perfervid imagination; but the work of drill took on a new meaning, and the men began to see the reason of trenches in warfare...
Saturday: 8-9 (section rooms) I. D. R., pp. 111-122. 9.30-10.30, Inspection under arms. 11-11.45, Examination on subject matter of lectures given during week...
Saturday: 8-9 (section rooms) I. D. R., pp. 111-122. 9.30-10.30, Inspection under arms. 11-11.45, Examination on subject matter of lectures given during week...
...interesting as a matter of passing notice, though not worth much actually, that Harvard, having joined the infantry, now wears a hat cord of blue, the color once consecrated to defeat by Mahan and Brickley and the cause of our own undoing under Black. In like manner Yale, having joined the artillery, now wears a hat cord of red, whose tone was once the battle-sign to Yale. So are the heavens altered. Berkeley held that all color is illusion. And the Army has made...
...Plattsburg elephant-gray ponchos have been issued for our future officers. All reports indicate that they have fitted the wearers physically, spiritually, and artistically, as the glove fits the hand, or as the elephant's hide--for that matter--fits the elephant...