Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years a member of Troop B of the First Squadron of cavairy, and when the World War broke out Dana wanted to go abroad in that division of the service. There was little call for cavalry; however, and he enlisted instead as a private in the Chemical Warfare department...
...Washington Elm, preserved until its decay as a memorial of the spot on the west of the Cambridge Common where George Washington took command of the Continental, Army in the Revolutionary War, may be reproduced in an enduring form, if plans materialize which A. F. Blanchard '04 has proposed to the Massachusetts State Legislature, in which he is a representative from Cambridge...
...Author may append to his name, Francis Josiah Hudleston, the enigmatic initials O. B. E., C. B. E.; these signify that he is an officer, a commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
Fradd traces the origin of the posture classes, which were first given at the University in 1919, to experience gained in the World War, when many men broke down under the strain of war service, and had to be built up by special exercises in camps established behind the lines in France. Exercises developed at that time proved effective in restoring health to men whose faulty body balance was responsible for a low grade of health...
...Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand homeless children--the "wild boys", the products of war and revolution--is a fact worthy of more than pictorial reproductions in the Sunday papers...