Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will meet the strong Colby Academy aggregation on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although the preparatory school nine has been playing steady ball throughout the season, the Freshmen are favored to win if they play up to their usual standard...
Yesterday afternoon the Freshman tennis team won all five matches from Brookline High School on Divinity Field. The preparatory school players failed to win a single set from their opponents, who were in good form...
...There are two men who are absolutely necessary in this war if we are to win," continued the visitor, "one of these is the commander-in-chief, the other is the platoon leader. The former makes the plans for the army and issues orders. Then the various divisional, brigade, and regimental officers repeat these commands after camouflaging them in different ways. It is the platoon leader who carries out these orders, and he alone is responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should...
Colonel Applin emphasized the need of having strict distinctions between officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, in order to carry discipline to the extent necessary to win...
Contrast this with the condition of mechanics who are giving equally of their best to win this war. They are not given even decent conditions under which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care...