Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to win them or even make a good showing--and inglorious defeat would be insufferable in Paris. The same feeling is expressed as appeared in the Parisian dailies after the "Battle of the Century" last July: "America may have Dempsey, but remember Frenchmen, we have Verdun!" France and the Olympic question appear very much like a fussy old woman with a potato too hot for her fingers, which pride will not let her lay down. The unfortunate part of it all is that evidences of fussy penny-wise pettiness like this, and isolated cases of what we call "poor...
...gone on with his studies and has won the degrees of licencie-en-lettres and licencie-en-droit. He is at present the holder of the fellowship annually awarded to a young Frenchman in memory of Victor E. Chapman '13, who was killed in action while flying over Verdun...
...elicit the warmest praise from the French architects and government officials under whom they worked. In the Department of the Meuse the students completed the surveys of four villages, Etain, Belleville, Vacherauville, and Clermonten-Argonne, and of one in the Aisne, as well as partly surveying the city of Verdun. The New York Herald, Paris edition, quotes the head engineer of Verdun as saying, "No surveyors ever in my employ have done such accurate or such rapid work as the American students...
Besides these, churches were designed for Verdun Iloureilles, and Bautheville, all in the Department of the Meuse. Plans for a club for Crouy (Aisne), a laundry for Soissons, and a farm for the village of Beine were also drawn...
...Reconstruction Unit arrived in Paris on July 1 and was entertained there by the French Government. About a week later active work began when the fifty men were divided into three parties sent respectively to Rheims, Soisson, and Verdun. From these centers small parties of not more than three or four men were sent to smaller towns which had been partially or entirely destroyed in the year...