Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time from both the players and the coaches. Can this time be spared from our ever increasing efforts to win the war? Most obviously it cannot. To ask it of the men would not only be unfair to the Nation which urgently needs them as officers in the shortest time that they can prepare for duty, but it would be unjust to the men themselves who are being tried by a competitive test which requires all of their mental and physical energy to assure success to themselves...
...clock-ahead bill, of which Senator Calder is sponsor, had been passed in time to have been in operation during the spring and summer months of 1917. The estimate is that of the United States Chamber of Commerce, based on Daylight saving being in effect "only for the shortest period that has been suggested and at a time when there is least need for artificial heat and light...
Already the Union has a branch in London and plans to have others in parts of France. It plans to keep up a complete directory of college men in France, so that information may be available on the shortest notice. It is a clearing house for mail, a reading room with all leading American newspapers and magazines, and a purchasing and forwarding agent for members in any part of France. The work and the worth of the Union, performing so valuable a service for thousands of Americans in France, will be the rallying cry of the all-college rally that...
...long talk by the coaches to the team during which the squad was divided, together with the Military Science 1 lecture at five o'clock, made the practice the shortest of the season. The time on the field was spent chiefly in signal practice and drill in new plays. W. J. Murray '18, assisted in instructing the quarterbacks. Tomorrow a scrimmage will be held with the informal University team...
...ignorance which in the wars of a half-century ago caused the losses of innumerable lives through fever, contagious diseases, and gangrene. The knowledge given to the world by Pasteur and his followers has enabled the medical corps of all the warring armies to restore in the shortest time and with the least loss of effectives wounded or otherwise disabled men to the fighting line. On the efficiency of its medical staff a modern army depends no less than on the battering power of its great guns...