Word: ten
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little the accounts of the first German attack upon the American troops are coming in. The Teutons isolated a salient by a heavy barrage thus cutting off the men stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...
...importance. Lieutenant Morize told us last summer that such a raid is perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
Fifty-nine members of the Freshman class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1917-1918. These awards represent part of an annual appropriation of $16,000, given to the University by the bequest of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf, of Quincy, who is also the founder of ten Price Greenleaf scholarships...
...specialization in bombing, scouting and photographing. Then he contrasted the different types of machines and the change in the methods of fighting and observing. Two years ago the "Huns" fought in squadrons while the English never fought in more than pairs. Now the English fight in squads of ten or twelve machines, and the Germans in squads of twenty. But even in spite of the numbers, England has had the supremacy...
...lies more in directing the artillery fire and in scouting and photographing than in the actual bombing of enemy trenches and positions." By means of the auxiliary maps which are made of the battlefields a pilot can report to the artillery and infantry a location to an accuracy of ten yards, he stated...