Word: months
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordering that shipping space in the amount of 50 tons per month be set aside by the army transport service for the shipment to France of American Library Association books for soldiers, General Pershing has given unmistakable recognition of the need of reading matter for the use of our men in France...
Shipping space is extremely valuable, and General Pershing would never have alloted so much of it to the American Library Association if he did not thoroughly believe in the value of books to fighting men. By setting aside 50 tons of shipping space per month, he has made it possible for the American Library Association to send to France a monthly average of 100,000 volumes. This task the American Library Association has cheerfully undertaken...
...question, "Resolved, That the Government in financing the war should obtain a larger percentage of its funds from taxes than from bonds," is of especial interest at the present time. It is essentially a Liberty Loan question and with the new April drive to sell bonds coming next month, it is a subject which is of vital importance...
...peculiarities of our censorship are often laughed at, but sometimes articles and announcements are published that do positive harm, whether they are true or not. There have been featured very frequently remarks of inventors who claim they have a machine to end the war in a month or so. The story is put on the front page with a long if not prominent list of men who are backing the invention. We can all remember the famous discovery that was to end the submarine peril in a few months, but the average is as high as ever. Other miraculous...
Four more members of the Faculty have been granted leave of absence for war work by the University Corporation at its meeting this week. Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has been granted an extended leave of absence to enable him to continue his services there for an indefinite period. He is stationed at the American Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines as assistant to the Director in charge of research problems...