Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...promise more punctiliously--for you will recall that on July 15th at 12.10 the Boche let loose one of his most completely devastating artillery preparations, which as far as my outfit was concerned consisted of a barrage which continued for seven hours--5 1-2 of which seven I spent in a gas mask. Then, at daybreak, and before his barrage had lifted, word came that the Boche had crossed the river and was upon us, so out I went into my platoon and took up a position to meet him--and just in time...
...Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most generous benefactor. Hilast days were spent in editing a catalogue of his collections of angling bookplates which have been on exhibition at the Grolier Club...
Colonel Charles Andrew Williams commandant of the University Corps, entered the service as a West Point cadet in 1870 and has spent his life since then in the Army. As a commissioned officer most of his service has been with the Twenty-First Infantry. The "fortunes of war" have carried him to Alaska, Cuba, and the Philippines, and into most of the northern states of the Union. When a second lieutenant during the campaign in 1877 against Chief Joseph, he was twice wounded in action. Company A of the Twenty-First Infantry was undress's immediate command in the Battle...
...subscribers to the Liberty Loans have purchased for the War Department over $4,000,000,000, of ordnance--$1,000,000,000 was spent for artillery; $300,000,000 for automatic rifles; $100,000,000 for small arms; nearly $2,000,000,000 for artillery amunition and $340,000,000 for small arms ammunition; $100,000,000 was spent for armored motor cars...
...estimated that $7,000,000,000 will be spent by the Ordnance Department this current year...