Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant and impressive ceremony, the commemorative exercises in honor of Yale men who lost their lives in the war, will be held Sunday, June...
During the war, the scouts established an enviable record. They were found prepared to help whenever called upon, obtaining no less than three hundred million dollars in subscriptions during the Liberty Loan drives, fifty million in the War Savings Stamp campaign, and similar commendable records in other drives...
...type of summer work has been dictated for the most part by the impulse to see and feel the great facts of life in their largest, roughest, and most elemental form, and to broaden in view-point accordingly, which was aroused but not satisfied for them in time of war. The jobs they have selected are those which involve heavy manual work, among men who work honestly from day to day with their hands, and see things from the laboring man's point of view...
...Matches have now been completed, according to Lt. Col. William C. Harlec, of the U. S. M. C., executive officer of the matches for 1919. They will be held this year during the months of July and August at the Navy Rifle Range, Caldwell, N. J., jointly by the War and Navy Departments. All arms of the service,--army, navy, and marine corps, are co-operating in this effort to develop the rifleman's art and to disseminate the results among the civilians of America as well as the military services...
Undignified is the word which best suits the latest move of the Senate in its war on the executive. According to last evening's papers, that body has taken as an official document a paper brought to this country by a Chicago newspaper man and has voted to introduce it into the Congressional record. No word of any sort confirming the authenticity of the document has come from the American representatives in Paris. The Senate is in reality going behind the back of the President, or as one Senator remarked "getting through the kitchen window...