Word: rout
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians following their advances into East Prussia and Galicia...
...salute in the army--and this is true of all armies except the army that ran away before the Germans in Russia recently--is a symbol of the discipline without which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual...
...South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch...
...expected, Penn. State won an easy 28 to 0 victory over the weak eleven representing West Virginia Wesleyan. As a big surprise, however, came the complete rout of the Dartmouth team at the hands of Princeton, which would seem to be the strongest team on our schedule. The Tigers had no trouble rolling up 30 points against their visitors, while the scant consolation of Dartmouth's 7 points was made only when Coach Rush had sent in a substitute team. Princeton's stone-wall defense, the superior generalship of Captain Glick, the superior punting of Driggs, and the remarkable performance...
...March 23; Music Hall, Quincy, March 25; Pi Eta Theatre, March 26; and Exeter Opera House, Exeter, March 27. Princess Gretchen, S. K. Knott '16 Robin, the Robber Chief, P. Blackmur '15 Billy Turner, Movie Agent, J. S. Pfaffman '16 John Rabbit, his assistant, W. E. Wellington '17 General Rout, W. D. A. Foote '15 Prince Hal of Valentinia, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Ichabod Gotten, a rich tourist, F. F. Munroe '15 Agnes Gotten, his wife, S. F. Haines '15 Lieutenant von Rothe, Valentinia's Henchman, E. R. Rutter '16 King Ravenna, T. W. Swett '15 A Maid...