Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stables are the most modern in every respect. They are built in three aisles, leaving a court between them. Horses will be allowed to stay in this open space during the day, when they are not being exercised. There will be room for at least 120 horses in these stables. At the entrance end of the stable is located the saddle room, in which the saddles and harnesses are stored on racks and other equipment in cases, and at the opposite end the dispensary and room for the stable sergeant, tool-room, and blacksmith shop...
...what Germany took rapidly by yards, that many good men are dying in order that the red fields of France may be once more free. We are learning that the German morale is not yet broken, that some millions of the finest war-trained troops, armed with all that modern science may give to the soldier, are holding fiercely that French and Belgian land which they took, and with all their power mean to keep...
...corps by reason of the cost of board. Additional instructors are not necessary since the arrival of the French officers. With their aid, and the instructors already here, the Corps will enjoy better teaching than any training corps has ever had in this country, and instruction in modern warfare more perfected by recent experience than can at present be given in any camp in this country...
...caused the last act to seem altogether wrong in its emphasis. The first two acts are splendid; the third wavers momentarily and falls a little below their standard, while the last seems entirely out of key with the rest. But the average struck is high indeed, judged by every modern standard...
...present war has provided an unusual opportunity to study the influence of weather upon modern military operations. Each war zone has its own special climatic types, and present its own peculiar problems. On the western front, the chief difficulty has been the autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes...