Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...months, since last winter. The Boche had been coming regularly the last three or four nights, and so everyone took it for granted that they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used...
...True to their expectation, promptly at the appointed time the Boche, or as they call the enemy in England, the Hun, put in his appearance. But all we or anybody else in the theatre knew about it was the noise of the anti-aircraft guns. From the sound the stories
...great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised there. We traveled for days through almost unbroken forests...
...that he uttered these words, representatives of Western livestock and packing interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...
...celebration of the birth of John Harvard will take place not on Monday, November 26, his true birthday, but on Tuesday morning, in the Delta by Memorial Hall. This change was made by the Memorial Society, under whose auspices the short exercises will be held, in order that a detail from the R. O. T. C. might take part in the celebration. Detachments from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and possibly both battalions entire, which hold their regular drill on Tuesday morning, will march to John Harvard's statue for the exercises. Exact plans for the participation of the University...