Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...tactical instructors referred to herein are the commissioned officers of the U. S. Army, the Officers of the French Military Mission, the regimental staff, the battalion commanders and their adjutants, and others designated as tactical instructors (these are distinguished by gilt insignia of rank...
...work of training men for coast defence. We issued a notice asking for volunteers of seagoing experience. We expected about 50 men; 300 applications were received. Professor H. L. Seward, a man of great experience in coastwise navigation, laid out a course of instruction and organized a teaching staff. This division met three evenings a week for instruction, and at the end of March the results of the examination passed our most sanguine hopes...
...breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...fulfillment of his efforts on the General Staff may not be foreseen. On the wisdom of that body depend many American lives spent through months of warfare. We believe that Captain Cordier will add strength in its deliberations, breadth of view, and adaptibility to new conditions of martial science...