Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have men who speak of nothing save them. War is even more highly specialized than modern industry in the heads of efficiency experts, and we're going to keep on specializing until we've won. Surely it will take a few years...
...hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through...
Volunteers who were to report yesterday afternoon to go to the Fresh Pond trenches to cut barbed wire will report today at 1.30 in front of Massachusetts Hall: R. G. FULLER, Captain, R. O. T. C., Regimental Adjutant...
Supply of Barbed Wire Received...
...quantity of barbed-wire for use in the construction of entanglements at the Fresh Pond trenches has been received, and will be put in position by the first two battalions next week. The schedule of training for all three battalions is printed elsewhere in today's CRIMSON...