Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with which bombing planes could annihilate a whole community? Certainly not, said Major General Amos Alfred Fries, chief of the U. S. Army Chemical Warfare Service. Another popular fallacy: that gas wounds form the basis of later disease. Yet gas is the greatest casualty-pro-ducer in war, Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument in which the power of the blow...
...shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called themselves the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts, how he had frightened a fat Spanish corporal by prodding him with his own knife or how he had weeked the mustachio of a lean little Spanish captain...
...Unknown Soldier buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is one of 70 men whose names are all known. Such is the efficiency of the grave's registration corps of the War Department-99.9% perfect. The War Department last week announced that for the 77,771 death in the A. E. F., 77,701 burials were now recorded. Of these, 46,284 bodies were returned to the U. S.; 30,812 remained in Europe; 605 were sent elsewhere. At the time of the report, only four more bodies remained to be sent home from Europe in compliance with...
...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...
Said the New York Herald-Tribune: "General Wood was the most eminent American soldier since the Civil...