Word: win
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beware of now is doing more talking than acting. We have to spend this year about three-quarters as much money as the entire amount expended in the last one hundred and twenty years. This means saving on the useless things, it means buying only those articles which help win the war. Thus we will turn industry into efficient productive channels and the men at the front will have real backing from home in the shape of good shells, guns and food, not merely Christmas cards...
Although the Navy Yard made seven runs of more than 25 yards and had ten first downs, while the Marines did not once gain the distance by rushing, the sailors were barely able to win-by a 7-to-0 score against the stiff defence of the League Island eleven, led by E. W. Mahan '16, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The condition of the Stadium necessitated the transfer of the contest to the Freshman Field, where a large crowd, including many sailors and Marines, witnessed the contest...
...time, they even out punted him. It was a great exhibition of fight and "pep." Before the game the betting was merely as to how large a score over thirty points Black's men would roll up; as the game progressed no one was too sure that they would win...
...realize that this is a long war if we want to stick to it until we have reached a victorious conclusion. And to make our sacrifices worth while, we must stay in the struggle to the bitter end. It is not we men on the firing line who will win this war. It is you who stay at home, sacrificing comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well as we know how. But remember, all our support, moral and physical, comes from...
...together for each manoeuvre. This is for the purpose of solving that difficult and knotty problem known in the French Army as "la liaison." By "liaison" they mean the co-ordination of units and branches, obtained by mutual understanding of unit commanders, by runners, airplanes, telephone, wireless, etc. To win a battle in trench warfare the artillery must co-operate with the infantry, and every separate unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line. You can see the stupendous task this is, and the amount of practice it will take to accomplish it. Naturally...