Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uzes, handsome, white-haired, expert huntswoman, ardent Royalist, is the first woman to hold the position of Lieutenant des Loups (Lieutenant of Wolves). Told by M. Chéron, Minister of Agriculture, that if she 'accepted the honor she would have to swear allegiance to the Trench Republic, the Duchess extended her hand...
...weaklings" of the armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance? Did the soldiers of Alexander or Caesar have to meet anything like the rigors of trench warfare? If the robust health of the American Expeditionary Force is a measure of the effects of pampering and hospitalization, the human race might profit from a more general application of such debilitating influences...
...frontier follows pretty closely the old German trench line of 1916, and this fact alone shows that it is an excellent strategic frontier. And Poland badly needs such a frontier for, after having been overrun seven or eight times in the last two centuries by Russian armies, she cannot feel safe without a good defensible line on the east...
...guns given to the University by the French include a battered "French 75," a captured German light field piece, and two captured trench mortars...
...toward suppressing for the time being the lawful and necessary functions of the legislative department. These must be restored. The three branches of the Government must once more be brought back to their normal positions where they shall fulfill the duties imposed upon them by the Constitution and not trench upon each other's jurisdiction and functions...