Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
...examination will be held at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, June 19, for the selection of five civilian instructors for the Department of English and about ten for the Department of Modern Languages. The men will be determined in the order of merit in this examination, and others who qualify will be placed on a reserve list, and held eligible, in their relative order of merit for appointments later on, when some vacancy occurs...
...relaxation and enjoyment, but not essential to the welfare of the community as a whole, then the College had better close its doors permanently. But if, on the other hand, education in the manifold forms in which it is given by the various institutions of learning, is essential to modern civilization and to the United States, then the College certainly cannot cease to impart...
Such eagerness is honorable, but it is not wise, if we believe this war may last over an increasingly serious term of years. Men are destroyed easily by the iron tools of destruction which the modern army possesses. But they are healed slowly and only at great cost of skill, of time, and patience, by those who know their profession thoroughly. Our inventors have passed beyond the bounds of the imaginable in contriving ways whereby men may be in great quantities and instantaneously blotted from existence. They have not yet found a way whereby men may be restored mechanically...
Captain Dupont, of the French Mission, is now devoting one or two evenings a week to a series of lectures on modern warfare at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth regiment is at present also being instructed by Sergeant Williams, of the First Corps Cadets, in addition to the regular staff of instructors under Captain Chase...