Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indian summer. I notice whenever you mention the Indians that you are uniformly fair and impartial and I trust that your great newsmagazine will see fit to say a word in favor of this program. A people from whom we obtained a continent and who furnished 30,000 young men in the World War, it seems to me, are highly deserving of an annual holiday...
...Army last year aggregated 130,937 officers & men; the National Guard, 176,988; Officers' Reserve Corps, 112,757; Reserve Officers' Training Corps, 112,424; Citizen's Military Training Camps...
...Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison, in charge of aeronautics, reported that the Army Air Corps' "most pressing question" was promotion of junior officers. Army and reserve pilots flew 263,381 aircraft hours last year, covered 26,300,000 miles, had 60 men killed...
After this, Grasson gave a talk for about ten minutes or so in which he kept the audience laughing, and in which he stressed the point that fencing was not a difficult sport to learn, but that the great need was for Americanized coaches who can understand their men thoroughly...
...would continue to give such demonstrations yearly as does Princeton and various other colleges. He was enthusiastic in his praise of Peroy. "I am pleased to find Peroy so strong," he said. "I had underrated him, especially with the sabre. He is stronger in all three weapons than the men in New York who specialize in one. He is a good man, and should do much for the sport at Harvard...