Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...warn the public not to expect too much. Yet the spirit is there. The members of the corps have been doing extra voluntary drill day after day. Five or six hours is the maximum the average have been under military dicipline and, keeping that in mind, the progress has been excellent...
Daily reports of the drive in the University are to be made to the captains, and each morning the progress of the campaign and the amounts subscribed will be published in the CRIMSON...
...advances by an adequate and efficient system of railways. Furthermore, the large number of forces involved renders impossible a separate incursion involving only a small portion of the troops. Security demands that no section of the line move so far ahead as to form a long narrow salient. What progress is made into Russia must be very slow, since an enormous front is concerned. To consider a German drive without proper precaution for defense is to neglect their policy and temperament. Teutons have so far made possible by their thoroughness a tenacious hold on what they have gained...
...this day not only commemorate the discovery of America by Europe; but proudly watch the progress of the discovery of Europe by America...
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the recent British offensive near Ypres has been the defensive power of machine guns. Reports tell of a generally steady progress, but held up at times by concrete "nests" of automatic rifles. A number of such guns, echeloned in depth, form an essential part of the defense. If, then, such pits can be made strong enough to resist all but the heaviest shells, and can be well camoufied, the resisting power would be very formidable. That the Germans have not made them powerful enough to hold back the English is evident, but they...