Word: rested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rest, the requirements are small. Fully half of any class, if it is a representative class, should be able to meet the elementary test...
...four weeks training the officers received orders to report, after a ten days rest, to their respective divisional cantonments, where they will instruct the men of the National Army in the trctics of modern warfare. They were the first members of the new armies to receive in this country training in the new methods of European fighting...
...applicants for admission; the result was that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older than 20 years and nine months were, with few exceptions, accepted. Over a hundred others successfully passed the examinations for provisional second lieutenancies in the regular army. The rest of the men, though at present not in the service, are in a position to advance rapidly when they become...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...