Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loan is taken by the banks it will involve credit inflation and a further rapid advance in price. If taken by the people the advance in price will be far less considerable and the mobilization of the country for war will be more speedily accomplished. We cannot enjoy all our accustomed luxuries and comforts during the war, because there simply is not enough labor to produce them, and at the same time equip large armies with the huge quantities of military supplies required in modern warfare...
...statements printed in this morning's CRIMSON, one from the College office and the other from Captain Cordier, are comforting evidence in refutation of Dame Rumor, that busy-body who has had the University Reserve Corps on a rapid run out of existence. Harvard regrets exceedingly that the able army officers detailed in Cambridge are to be ordered elsewhere by the War Department, for these men must be accorded the great measure of honor due to the success of the corps. But this honor is only increased when it is remembered that the corps is not going to die simply...
...volleying crash of rapid fire and the reiterated drumming of the machine gun instilled in those men who had not yet acquired it the knowledge that war is not altogether a matter of files on parade. Not a great deal of battle thrill was given to any save men with a perfervid imagination; but the work of drill took on a new meaning, and the men began to see the reason of trenches in warfare...
...military topography and field work in trench construction under the French officers. Bayonet fencing, gallery practice in preparation for the range work, and close and extended order drills consume the balance of the time. The second set of student officers appointed in these battalions last Monday have made rapid strides, and are now for the most part able to fill their positions creditably...
...known ranges. Each man will shoot the regular army qualification course for his record, which provides for 10 shots at 300 yards, 5 sitting and 5 kneeling, 10 shots prone at 500 yards, and 10 shots prone with a sand bag rest at 600 yards; and also, at rapid fire, for 10 shots at 200, 300, and 500 yards in one minute, one minute and 10 seconds, and one minute and 20 seconds respectively...