Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taking drill only are not required to take the work in topography in Military Science 1. Their duties during the period of February are to perfect themselves in the Manual of Arms and continue setting up exercises in order to promote, study of physical development P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant...
...taking drill only are not required to take the work in topography in Military Science 1. Their only duties during the period of February are to perfect themselves in the Manual of Arms and continue setting up exercises in order to promote study of physical development. P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant...
...priority; all must be learned sooner or later by every prospective officer. In abandoning the manoeuvres within totally inadequate, buildings, the authorities have not hindered the practical training, but they have seen the absurdity of trying to secure it in a very restricted space. To make soldiers perfect in the fundamentals has been the aim of winter drill, but this cannot be obtained under conditions which provoke a loss of interest. The change is a most sensible one, for men will be learning something new instead of trying to maintain proficiency already secured...
...have heard probably of Harvard's loss, the stage's--future stage, at least--loss, and my loss--in that bully good fellow and perfect friend, Ham Craig. His section, Number 2, was working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...
...they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security. The irregular, apparently haphazard firing of the French always impressed us as likely...