Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...considerable amount of equipment for the University artillery unit has just been received by the Military Office. This includes two five-ton Holt tractors, six horses, a complete set of saddles, and a number of observation and fire-control instruments. Four enlisted men of the regular Army have also arrived to care for the horses...
...Lampoon's effort is a brilliant piece of parody. Sometimes it is a little obvious, and the number of themes upon which it lays unholy hands could have been varied with advantage. But the headlines and memorial notices are alone worth the price of admission; and the editorial is so like what the Transcript actually preaches--it is perhaps rather better written--as to suggest that it was contributed in all seriousness from the Transcript office. Excellent, too, is the life of General Edwards which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography...
...earnestly hope this number of the Lampoon will be suppressed by the authorities. In a winter distinguished by influenza, the armistice, the Peace Conference, and the institution of general examinations, it looks as though none of the ancient customs will long survive. The Transcript cannot have many years to live on its present lines; and I am doubtful if its death will not--if thus prematurely assisted--detract from the gaiety of nations. Only Punch has an equal humour, and Punch, after all, attains its effects by conscious and perspiring effort...
...spirited "home Thoughts," Mr. Hood makes skillful use of alternate stress. His poem gives us a number of sharply-etched little pictures of phases of life in the active navy. the reader will remember the line: "The daylight strikes its colors in the West...
...Smith's lively and been comment "Happiness," "The Thunderbolt," and "A Sleepless Night," Plays now running in Boston, ends a number to which it is a pleasure to accord high praise...