Word: trainload
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work is done among the walking wounded, and the first of these hospitals that we visited was just receiving the first trainload of the results of the morning's battle. Box-car loads of these suffering men were handled cautiously and gently by the orderlies, and the first building they entered was the Y. M. C. A. marquees. Here they passed by the counter and were given free cocoa, bread, cheese, crackers, and cigarettes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful than coming in, after being out in the enchase for days, perhaps, cold, wet, and hungry, and being given...