Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Capt. Martin E. Trench, U. S. N., 57, Governor of the Virgin Islands; on a holiday visit in Worcester, Mass., suddenly, of bronchopneumonia...
Since General von Seeckt, the directing genius of the Reichswehr, has declared: "Trench warfare is out of date," the war games were featured chiefly by attempts to maneuvre at tremendous speed and as much under cover as possible. Several battalions were marched over hill and dale as far as 25 miles in one day, and the trucks representing tanks were driven at breakneck speed...
...Berlin last week a further manifestation of post-War pacifism came to light with the opening of a great anti-War exhibit, featuring mammoth pacifist cartoons by virile German Trench-Artist Otto...
...notable that busses starting from British or German tourist agencies were not molested. Trench hostility, however mistaken, was directed at "Les Américains...
...wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report of Major General Ireland, Surgeon General...