Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually trying out a new type of war machine which we must organize the personnel. No pains are being spared to enable troops to achieve maximum results with minimum loss. But we must not forget we are still in a period of adaptation. Reinforcements which are arriving fast are relieving the units hard-pressed since the beginning...
...personnel of the Oxford team was made known last night. It will consist of H. J. S. Wedderburn, of Balliol College, R. H. Bernays, of Worcester College, and H. V. Lloyd-Jones, of Jesus College. Lloyd-Jones is at present president of the Oxford Union, which is the historic training school for the House of Commons, while the other two members of the invading team are both ex-presidents of the Union...
...Some 15,000 of this number are Army and Navy personnel stationed at the islands...
...important is the conference held that the U. S., Britain, France and Italy sent nine delegates apiece while Germany, whose arms-trading facilities were rigorously denied in the Treaty of Versailles, sent no fewer than seven. The entire personnel of the conference filled the League Palace to the exclusion of the public, made it the largest conference ever held under the League's aegis and the largest conference, after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, ever to be held in the whole course of known history...
...psychology of rowing is perhaps more difficult than that of any other sport. Confidence adds many lengths to a crew's speed. The present policies of the athletic authorities combined with the leadership of the present coaching personnel has instilled this much needed confidence; and speed has been the result. On the basis of a sound rowing technique and a sound rowing psychology Harvard's hopes for victory on the Thames in June may be built high...