Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...transportation organization of the Ambulance, known as the field service, is under the active direction of a man-long identified with Harvard--A. Platt Andrew, and more than fifty other Harvard men are serving or have served in this branch of work. At present there are over 150 motor-cars in the field service, which has won by its efficiency the distinction of sole charge of the transport of wounded in two important sectors of the line. One American section as a whole and nearly a score of American drivers have won the coveted decoration--the Croix de Guerre--which...
...event of the would-be graduate's career, will take place on Mystery Island, which is all that the name implies. At 8 o'clock hundreds of sportive diploma-chasers will embark on the perilous trip to Marine Wharf, via the surface cars. Two steamers will be provided to transport the unruly mob to the island, and the race which these ocean greyhounds will put up will be worth going miles...
...Norton '92 has organized the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps, for rendering immediate assistance to wounded combatants by rapid transport to hospital. Ten motor-ambulances have already been equipped, and are doing effective work under the supervision of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton graduates. Norton has gone to the front. The work is affiliated with that of the British Red Cross Society...
...Friday, May 22. The class will assemble in the Yard at 8 o'clock in the morning, and will parade to Harvard Square behind the First Corps Cadet Band of 15 pieces. They will then take special cars for Otis Wharf where the steamer Griswold will be waiting to transport them to the island...
...show the rapid march of events in England, Mr. Lansbury described the Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...