Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice morning he motored to Arlington Cemetery, to watch General Pershing lay the Presidential wreath of white chrysanthemums upon the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...
Taken altogether, the result is supposed to be a science. R.O.T.C. conforms to no known definition of a Science, but nevertheless it is foisted on unsuspecting Freshmen as if it ranked with Engineering and Chemistry. Military Science is a causal collection of Engineering which belongs in a soldier's handbook, and it is time that the University labelled it as such...
...hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
...than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered young soldier, wounded, has broken with his parents. In all of them, as in himself, Cripure finds more than adequate support for his belief that human beings are contemptible...