Word: civility
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...Appointments under the new system will be on a merit basis (although not a part of the "civil service") "and politics be damned...
...Oriental soul. It may be assumed that he was also conscious of the sahibs and mem-sahibs that stirred among the teeming millions of India, and he may have wondered vaguely why the great sahib in Government House kept such state. He prepared to enter the Indian Civil Service. All his life long he never forgot his debt to British culture...
...Force, 250,000 men in the regular Army, of whom one half are always absent in India and the Colonies. The Army Reserve, which has a normal strength of 120,000 men, is only 99,000 .strong. The Territorial Army, recruited for home defence and trained as their civil employment will permit, numbers less than 148,750, the number for which provision has been made. The maximum strength of the British Army cannot be more than...
James Kendall Hosmer: Graduating from Harvard seventy years ago, he served from modesty as a private soldier in the Civil War, and thereafter by his pen has enriched the history of England and America...
...class of 1860 has been a note-worthy one despite the Civil War, which took heavy toll of its members. Of the 50 who enlisted in both armies, ten were killed in battle and many others had their lives shortened by wounds and illness incurred in the service...