Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Parisian journalist who has been right in the thick of it since the war started is bound to be interesting. The French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed...
Azan: The War of Positions, Part 2, Chapter...
...that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded...
...year ago our Army consisted of 9,524 officers and 202,510 enlisted men; it now numbers 123,800 officers, and 1,529,000 enlisted men. Several hundred thousand of these are now in Europe taking part in the greatest battle in history. Our Ordnance Department is now spending about $13,000,000 a day, which is just about the amount it annually expended in peace times. Our production of rifles is now 11,550 a week, against 2,500 a wek in September, 1917. To feed our Army 3,000 cattle must be slaughtered every morning...
...first University and Freshman crews in their final practice on the Charles yesterday rowed upstream against one of the strongest winds of the season. A fast stroke was kept for the greater part of the way, but no attempt was made to force the pace...