Word: verdun
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...from the Bible and scenes in the life of the pilgrims at Lourdes. Belonging to this latter group are "La Miraculee" and "La Communion des Malades", remarkable for their deep and intense feeling. One of the artist's fine compositions that appeared during the war is shown, "La Borne" (Verdun...
...University has a right to feel proud that it leads the other American colleges by having fourteen members accepted for the American Students Reconstruction Unit. They will do an unusual work. Out of the ruins that the Germans left when they over-ran the district between Rheims and Verdun, they will build towns and villages with an aim to health as well as beauty. Modern sanitary arrangements will be introduced that are unknown to the French. The Unit will contribute to the welfare and happiness of hundreds. We are told that only eight of the fourteen members of the University...
...Reconstruction Unit will probably leave this country about June 28, and on arriving in France will start a three-months' program of work in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The members of the Unit will assist in the reconstruction of towns and villages in the areas ruined by the German invasion. Pinon, a town which is being rebuilt this summer by the French Government, will serve as a model for other reconstruction work...
...wreck. Last May, the French were determined to avoid shelling the Turkish quarter so destructively, but they were compelled to it finally by the obstinate resistance of the Nationalists, who surrendered only when they had nothing left to eat. The Turks said that Aintab was their Verdun, and they were determined to defend it at all hazards...
...will probably not leave this country till about June 28, by which date the year's work in practically every college will be at an end. On arriving in France the Unit will start a three-months' program in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The principal work of the Unit will be to make projects and drawings for the restoration of buildings, to help the surveyors in relocating property lines and laying out new villages, and to help in the rectification, alteration and improvement of town plans...