Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assembling, dissembling and firing of the machine guns which the Corps has obtained. Target practice with the Colt machine, the gun which is being paid for by the subscriptions of the companies, resulted very satisfactorily. These company subscriptions should be made to the first sergeants, who will turn the amount collected over to P. P. Goold, Persis Smith A22. It will be necessary to raise $600 from the two battalions now in Cambridge...
...also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...glorification of spring. True, Keats never sang in praise of them when he penned his imperishable odes. But that was probably because, being a poet, he was forced to content himself with a hand-me-down of a last winter's derby. Roses may wither, westerly zephyrs turn into wintry gales, blue spring days dissolve, but the straw hat, like the river and the youth of excelsiior, goes on forever...
...plan adopted by the Military Office, all the lieutenants and noncommissioned officers of each company, possibly excluding the first and supply sergeants, will be demoted at the end of this week, and their places will be filled by men chosen from the ranks. These new men will in turn be removed after two weeks to make room for a third set of appointments, and again a fourth group will hold office from the 1st until the 15th of July. In this manner practically everyone in all the companies will be given an opportunity to act at least in the capacity...
...certain number after the time the men are obliged to live in barracks. All men who are financially able to do so will be obliged to pay for their board and will be urged to contribute a sum equal to the cost of their equipment. We must not, however, turn away good men for lack of the necessary funds to pay for their support while at the camp...