Word: without
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stadium was the scene of the third annual rally of the Boy Scouts of Greater Boston Saturday afternoon when over 5,000 scouts, representing 11 districts and 42 cities and towns took part in a series of events ranging from wall-scaling to lighting a fire without matches. Fully 20,000 parents and friends of the scouts were present in the big amphitheatre to witness the exhibition which showed the unusual efficiency of the boys in first aid, woodcraft, and self-reliance...
Then in various parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
...Substitute the following: 1. In uniform covered or uncovered, but not in formation, officers and enlisted men salute military persons as follows: With arms in hand, the salute prescribed for that arm (sentinels on interior guard duty excepted); without arms, the righthand salute...
This is only the number of those who were ready to go without question and at once, according to the records. As the percentage of those who would go to war at the first call from a spirit of adventure is only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of those who will willingly go when called upon (as the experience of England has shown) then we may count on four or six million men whose love of country, unlike their love of adventure, is superior to selfish motives of physical immunity...