Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picked men to enrol in a training course for aviators. It is desired that the men be the best of available material, sound in body and between 20 and 30 years of age. Educational qualifications will be given special consideration, as it will be necessary for accepted applicants to pass a ten-weeks' course in a ground school before going to a flying field. During training they will rank with Naval Cadets and have the rating and pay of gunnery sergeants...
...students in the College must pass, before the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons beginning this Thursday. All candidates who wish to take the oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, not later than today. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the examination...
...students in the College must pass, before the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons, beginning Thursday, May 15. All candidates who wish to take the oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, on or before Monday, May 13. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
...British are not a phrase-making people and their stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack...
...Union and steadfastness,--those today must be the watchwords of the Allies. We have to hold out against the whisperings of pessimism. Clouds of blood and horror come, but they will pass away and the sun of victory will shine through. This is not an ordinary war; it is a holy war against treason, corruption and the power of evil...