Word: succession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...artillery and trenching, battle has appeared dreary work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...
...with proper speed and with proper support, is in itself a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every phase the exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence and defence requires for its development and upkeep a vast amount of scientific knowledge, and success or failure may well fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat...
...make this dance a success will mean co-operation from every Junior. The old method of giving carpenters full sway in the Union for two or three days must be abolished now that the Union is taking Memorial's place as a dining-hall. There will be but little chance for decorations unless the men who normally eat in the Union volunteer to leave for the terrors of a Jimmie's bread-line. Something radical must be done because it is impossible to have a dance in a place which has acquired the gentle aroma of a Holt's Cafeteria...
...opponents had of walking into the City Hall in an official capacity. A voter and a gambler both enjoy picking a winner. But if a voter were to take all the recent campaign speeches seriously, he would have difficulty in seeing which way the wind blew. One man deserves success at the polls today above all the rest, since he is the only one who promises to give Boston a better municipal administration than it has had for years. That man is Peters. IT is he whom we want to see as the next mayor of the city across...
...hope that success will attend the formation of the rifle team tonight. It is an organization which combines sport with instruction, and one which may have great future possibilities...