Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The impression prevails in America that enlistment or conscription in the Army means the probable death of the soldier in battle. It has even been stated that an Allied officer at the front has only so many days to live; that the life of a man in the trenches is...
The impression is false, and the statements are lies. The death rate in the Allied armies on the western front is only about four times that of the same age, in civil life--and there are many occupations of peace which are no less hazardous than the occupation of making...
To pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic...
"Having been privileged to visit the British Y. M. C. A. work at the very front, we were taken in the afternoon on the 20th to the old battlefield of B--.We now got our first impression of the real thing, because never before have I seen such devastation. Absolutely...
"The Y. M. C. A. work is done among the walking wounded, and the first of these hospitals that we visited was just receiving the first trainload of the results of the morning's battle. Box-car loads of these suffering men were handled cautiously and gently by the orderlies...