Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
...aside from the sporting element contained in such an affair, its effect on the public would be very great. Aviation would be thrust upon people in a new and pleasing light, tending to create a strong sentiment throughout the country for placing this industry on its proper footing. Since the government refuses to help aviation by its failure to pass the fifteen million dollar appropriation fund, all stimulus must come from private sources. And which of these latter are more suited for the task than the colleges...
...many colleges and universities are planning to resume their old R. O. T. C. units at once, and at a time when Bolsheviks and Reds and Spartacides are destroying enormous nations this course may to some appear the wisest. But is it not a bit of misplaced enthusiasm to thrust a Krag into the hands of a lieutenant, who has just checked in a dozen machine guns at Camp Hancock, or to ask a man returning to college from France to profit by simulated battles with simulated. Huns at Fresh Pond, or to continue the training of a score...
Throughout the whole affair, the sufferers have been Faculty, and they have acted most generously. It is hard enough for them to arrange for one set of special examinations, without having suddenly thrust upon their shoulders the bothersome necessity of making out still more sets of papers and having a new collection of blue books piled before them. It is greatly to their credit that they have realized the value of the June Camp and have given every man who hopes to go a fair chance to complete his academic work...
Yesterday morning active practice was carried on by all the members of the detail. The grenade section was given live grenades for the first time, while the bayonet men began work on the dummies, giving special attention to mastering the point thrust. All the exercises were carried out by members of the corps in a satisfactory manner...