Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being manufactured for the British in this country and was adapted to the use of the French. "75" ammunition. It differs from the French "75" mainly in that the recoil chamber is above instead of below the barrel. It also lacks the compensatory mechanism of the French weapon...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...
...cases are numberless where persons have suffered from the most unjust imposition because of the fear that the very words "law" and "court" have caused them. Unworthy members of the profession have very often gained their more unworthy ends by the skillful manner in which they have used this weapon. "Being called to court" and "going to court" are phrases as terrible to many persons as was the fear of eternal damnation to some of our forefathers. If these ideas can be educated out of minds of those who believe them, so that the ignorant man will know and believe...
...lecture this evening will relate to the function of the airplane as an offensive weapon, and also as an aid to the other branches of the service at the front. Every phase of the use of aviation in modern warfare will be taken up, and many lantern slides will be used by the speaker to illustrate the points brought up in the address...
Professor Sabine stated yesterday that his speech "will relate to conditions at the front, and the function of aviation as an offensive weapon, and as an aid to the other branches of the service." The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides, and will deal to a considerable extent with airplane photography. The speaker will also discuss the part of the airplane in actual fighting...