Word: salient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...salient duty of every American to help remedy Bolshevism and the terrible conditions now existing in Russia," said Hugh Walpole in the Living Room of the Union last evening. Mr. Walpole explained that he drew this conclusion from his experiences in Russia during the war. He spoke also of his early literary training in school and college...
...salient points of disagreement in the recent trouble was the question of affiliation with the A. F. of L. by an organization in the police department. Mr. Laski elsewhere propounds the doctrine of unchecked unionization and affiliation. Carry this theory to a further degree. After police, municipal employees, come federal and national employees, Why should not the Army or Navy unionize? An army strike for one tour of guard per year would increase the efficiency of the army surely...
With sufficient obsequies to Professor Osterhout and the guiding spirits of the Dinning Association the opinion might even be ventured that the Professor's advice had already been obtained upon this salient point, and that he had prescribed a formula for the mixture to be called scrambled eggs, differing but slightly from his staged elements of fats and sugar. There should be sunlight,--yes, because the resulting product is yellow--and water, too. It is hard, though, to believe in the preparation. Without it, then, the recipe might read something like this...
Little by little the accounts of the first German attack upon the American troops are coming in. The Teutons isolated a salient by a heavy barrage thus cutting off the men stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...
...followed their 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...