Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...executed manoeuvers that the time spent in drilling the last two months has been well spent. It is true that the company fronts were not as even as they might have been and occasionally a corporal or a platoon leader would so disarrange his unit as to cause a moment's confuson, but taken all in all the performance was most creditable for so early in the year...
President Lowell, who spoke after Dean Yeomans, laid stress upon the need of team-play, and the development of morale. "This morale of the army," he said, "depends upon the character of its officers. And character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...
...University stands in the same position today. While the wave of preparedness is sweeping through our ranks, Phillips Brooks House is doing its best under great difficulties to maintain its work. At this moment the annual spring clothing collection is under...
...Senate adjourned Wednesday night to meet again at noon tomorrow. As the resolution must be returned to the Senate while that body is in session, the Senate while that body is in session, President Wilson will not receive the historical document for signature until this afternoon. From the moment of his approval war will...
...Government is immediately putting into effect the plans which it has long been formulating for such a moment as the present. An army of 1,727,846 men is provided for in the War Department's emergency military measure, under which the regular army is to be increased, the militia of the various states is to be drafted into Federal service, and an additional 1,000,000 men are to be raised by selective drafting. Telegraphic orders for the mobilization of 15,000 members of the Naval Militia and the Naval Reserve will be flashed throughout the land immediately upon...