Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...touch with athletics at the University realizes that this system would not get many more men interested in sports than at present. The average man is not going to supply himself with equipment to play on the 13th team, and it is no enjoyment playing in an inadequate outfit. In order to encourage men to come out regularly for sports they must be supplied their equipment. At the present time all men on major sport teams except football, and all minor sport men, have to furnish their entire outfit. For a man to play hockey or baseball this outfit...
...more willing, we suspect, to let President Wilson go over there and run things, after he ceases to be President, than it will be to have him assume for the United States Government now an undertaking which will cost so much in money and in the civil and military outfit necessary. WATERBURY AMERICAN...
...should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard regiment on the platform of Sanders Theatre in August, 1917, were: "If I ever get any of you in my outfit, I won't let you go." The University is proud of having had him in its outfit, and will not let his memory go. JOSEPH WARREN...
...papers of the 15th to 22nd of July you will perhaps see why I did not keep my promise more punctiliously--for you will recall that on July 15th at 12.10 the Boche let loose one of his most completely devastating artillery preparations, which as far as my outfit was concerned consisted of a barrage which continued for seven hours--5 1-2 of which seven I spent in a gas mask. Then, at daybreak, and before his barrage had lifted, word came that the Boche had crossed the river and was upon us, so out I went into...
...outfits in this command have been having a fine time killing Germans. All three of them have been in it, especially one. I suppose you read about their splendid work. They killed them with picks and anything that came handy. I was out there the two days before the counter attack, and, of course, went out the minute we received the news over the phone, but things were comparatively quiet. The whole outfit volunteered to go into the trenches and a good many of them...