Word: sented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unfortunate mistake, as close order drill is absolutely essential to proper training of troops, and the more expert a man is in this work, the better and more desirable soldier he will make. In the British army, a body of troops begins squad drill as soon as it is sent back for the "long rest." It inculcates discipline, and tends to a perfection and unity of organization that are necessary in battle. --Daily Princetonian
...required; 50 landings; a 90-mile triangle, cross country, with two stops; several petits voyages' to neighboring hangars; an altitude test over 2000 meters for over an hour; it is the regular French 'brevet' course. We start in double control machines and after five or six flying hours are sent to solo work...
Practice was somewhat similar to that of the first day. All the forwards were divided into several lines and were sent down the ice against sets of defence men. Later only two men went down together and were checked by a single man on the defence...
...citizens of Halifax. All their work, however, must be done before 10 o'clock this morning, since at that time the special truck will leave Phillips Brooks House carrying the University's share collected. This contribution will leave Boston at 12 o'clock on the special relief train sent by the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Special Aid Society...
...held by the War Department," wrote Senator Kirby of Arkansas. Representative Mott of New York thinks that "military authorities are unanimous in maintaining that it should be as low as that." Hon. Bertrand H. Snell thinks that the younger men will be called for training but will not be sent across the water until they...