Word: procession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rudiments of military science, namely, close order drill, physical exercises, guard duty, and the elementary work in the Small Arms Firing Manual. Besides this they have also been instructed for a short period every morning in the new British bayonet-fighting system. A bayonet assault-course is in the process of construstion and parry-sticks have been ordered...
...this condensing process, Technology has established a curriculum of eight terms of twelve weeks, compressed within two years. Within these terms the fundamentals have been changed very little, but some of the finishing touches have, of necessity, been omitted...
Germany's military might is beginning to crumble, and we now see the first effects of it not only on the western front but in Palestine and in Macedonia. The process of disintegration is not likely to be rapid for a long time, but there is conclusive evidence that it has begun. Some of the hardest fighting of the war is still to come, for when the actual invasion of German territory begins and the scene of war is transferred to German soil, the Impeial Government will be able to make a powerful appeal to the sentiment and interest...
...plans for the formation of the companies during the period of training this summer are also in the process of formation. It is the present intention of the military authorities to appoint cadet captains and lieutenants, but to designate to each of the proposed eight companies an inspector instructor who will act in an advisory capacity. For these latter positions the services of four former officers of the First Corps of Cadets, two former officers of the Massachusetts Coast Artillery and one of the Massachusetts Cavalry, and two West Point cadets, have been secured. Major Flynn will remain as Commandant...
...industrial revolution brought with it large-scale production and great centralization of industry. Its whole development has meant the sacrifice of small business and the elimination of competition. The ordinary laborer today lives through a daily routine of minute detail. His life is but a process of repetition of some small industrial function. And on the other side, the great monopolies of production have grown up and have seemed to make the system of private property but an instrument of the fortunate. It is under such conditions that social discontent has demanded a new order. With the increasing power...