Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hemenway Gymnasium today at 12 o'clock. Four assistants, preferably men with previous experience, will be chosen to help in the bayonet drills which are to start next week. In addition to the regular U. S. Army drill, instruction will be given in the method of handling the weapon at present employed by the French...
...thousand Springfield rifles in place of the Krag-Jorgensens in use at present. The Corps is very fortunate to be able to secure these new guns at the present time, for there is a heavy demand for them from military organizations throughout the country, and in addition every available weapon will be needed for the new army which the Government will raise. It is expected that the rifles will be delivered by the time the R. O. T. C. goes into intensive training for the summer...
...only this prohibition, in a slightly different form, which Germany seeks to exercise upon American shipping. As regards the use of mines, both belligerents are now obviously on an equal footing, as any specific warning in connection with the use of this species of weapon is, of course, out of the question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor...
...Before addressing an officer, an enlisted man makes the prescribed salute with the weapon with which he is armed, or, if unarmed, with the right hand. He also makes the same salute after receiving a reply...
...students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...