In 1918 King, assisted by his friend F. A.

Moreover, he researched the Dictionary assisted by Francis, who died in 1918 of tuberculosis, which he contracted in service with the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ).

In 1918 he returned to Kiev and assisted Vladimir Vernadsky in establishing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences – the oldest academy among the Soviet republics other than Russia.

From October 1918 to February 1919 he assisted in fitting out at San Francisco.

With the commencement of the German Spring Offensive of 1918, the 12th Battalion assisted in repulsing the assault in the months of March and April.

During June 1918, Towner led a machine gun section in attack near Morlancourt and assisted the infantry in reaching its objectives under heavy fire, for which he was awarded the Military Cross.

After the armistice in late 1918, the Corporation assisted in the transition to peacetime by financing railroads under government control, and making loans to American exporters and agricultural cooperative marketing associations.

In early 1918, it assisted in the repulse of the major German offensive on the Western Front following the collapse of Russia.

In the influenza epidemic of 1918 he assisted the delivery of healthcare to Māori.

Huber Matos Benítez ( born November 26, 1918 ) was a Cuban revolutionary who assisted Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and members of the 26th of July Movement in successfully overthrowing the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista as part of the Cuban Revolution.

By 1918, and assisted by the construction of several tunnels under the city's hills, Muni was in direct competition with the URR down the length of Market Street.

At Oxford, Bridges became friends with Gerard Manley Hopkins, who is now considered a superior poet but who owes his present fame to Bridges ' efforts in arranging the posthumous publication ( 1918 ) of his verse.

In October 1918 the Danish Red Cross intervened, arranging for Serge and other revolutionaries to be exchanged for Bruce Lockhart and other anti-Bolsheviks who had been imprisoned in Russia.

He was also responsible for arranging a performance version of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in A major ( 1865 ) when its piano and cello score was discovered in 1918.

Soon after the Club was opened it became apparent that the Elizabeth Street premises were too small, and it was decided at a general meeting held at the end of 1918 to purchase a site and build new premises.

Since Wilkins was not a U. S. citizen he was unable to purchase the 1918 submarine that was scheduled to be decommissioned.

The U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps made the first purchase of land,, to construct a government military installation in April, 1918.

The corporation's roots were established in 1927, after Conn Smythe organized a group of investors to purchase Toronto's premier hockey franchise, which had earned Stanley Cup championships in 1918 ( as the Toronto Arenas ) and 1922 ( as the Toronto St. Pats ), and renamed it the Maple Leafs.

May 1, 1918 Helena Devereux and her students took residence in the house that became known as “ Devereux Stone .” Soon her students numbered 12, and in 1919 Devereux was able to purchase the rental property, as well as the neighboring estate.

He may have lost an historic deal in January 1918 by diverting the debate to one on land purchase.

* SS Pawnee ( SP-1685 ), was designated by the Navy on 28 February 1917 ; under consideration for use as a cargo vessel on the coast of France ; purchase of this ship was canceled in 1918

Finally the entrance of the United States on the side of the Allies in 1917, and the arrival of substantial U. S. troops, coupled with the failure of the final German offensives in the West in early 1918, allowed the Allies to push the Germans out of France and into Belgium, towards the German border.

It was not until 1918 when playing a substantial role in William S. Hart's picture, Riddle Gawne, that Chaney's talents as a character actor were truly recognized by the industry.

Following enormous losses at the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, the Division required a substantial refit in England between June and August 1918, which involved the introduction of many non-Irish battalions.

Between 1929 and 1936 the appearance of the station changed dramatically and most of the original wooden 1917 / 1918 hangars, barrack blocks and offices were demolished and replaced with substantial brick structures.

Of the top 22 candidates in the voting, 17 had not seen any substantial play since 1917 ; only 3 of the top 32 had played their final season anytime between 1918 and 1933.

Only 5 of the top 22 candidates in the voting, and none of the top 6, had seen any substantial play since 1917 ; only 3 of the top 36, and none of the top 22, had played their final season anytime between 1918 and 1933.

Only 5 of the top 14 candidates in the voting, and none of the top 5, had seen any substantial play since 1917 ; only 2 of the top 26, and none of the top 19, had played their final season anytime between 1918 and 1933.

He is perhaps best known for his writings on his Great Basin experiences between the years of 1918 and 1943, where he published an impressive number of papers and made substantial achievements in his career ( Clemmer 1999: ix ).

The Germans were able to transfer substantial forces to the west in order to mount an offensive in France in the spring of 1918.

The first mass rally ( tabor ) in support of a United Slovenia took place in Ljutomer in 1868. Before 1918, the town had a substantial German speaking minority: in 1910, 46 % of the inhabitants of the town were German speakers.

The first ' Streatham ' constituency was contested in 1918 and approximately followed the historic parish boundaries of Streatham, including a substantial part of Balham.

In 1908, Thomas received a substantial grant from Helen Culver to finance research on the life and culture of immigrants to the U. S. Managing the Helen Culver Fund for Race Psychology for ten years until 1918 enabled him to undertake several journeys to Europe in order to study the background of East European immigrant groups.

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

In December 1918, republicans ( then represented by the Sinn Féin party ) won 73 Irish seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence.

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

On 30 January 1918 General Mannerheim proclaimed to Russian soldiers in Finland that the White army did not fight against Russia: the goal of the White campaign was to beat the Finnish Red rebels and the Russian troops supporting them.

In February 1918 General Mannerheim weighed the question of where to focus the general offensive of the Whites, between two strategically vital enemy strongholds: Tampere, Finland's major industrial town in the south-west, and Viipuri, Karelia's main city.

* 1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General ( d. 2005 )

* 1918 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

* 1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General ( d. 2007 )

General Motors Canada was formed in 1918.

In August 1918, Trotsky authorized General Mikhail Tukhachevsky to place blocking units behind politically unreliable Red Army units, to shoot them if they retreated without permission.

Another point bearing on the war and duly emphasized by General Smuts in his lecture before the Royal Geographic Society ( January 1918 ), was the extraordinary strength of the German frontier.

In 1918, General Electric engineer Sanford Alexander Moss attached a turbo to a V12 Liberty aircraft engine.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, and later acquired by General Motors in 1918.

The lack of consensus around Portugal ’ s intervention in turn made possible the appearance of two dictatorships, led by General Pimenta de Castro ( January – May 1915 ) and Sidónio Pais ( December 1917-December 1918 ).

General Louis Archinard was the president of the committee that supervised the erection of the monument, highlighting the role of African troops of the 1st Colonial Infantry Corps in the defense of Reims from the German Army in 1918.

Lille was liberated by the British on 17 October 1918, when General Sir William Birdwood and his troops were welcomed by joyous crowds.

* 1918: One of the leading gas turbine manufacturers of today, General Electric, started their gas turbine division.

Weygand was promoted Général de Division ( equivalent to the Anglophone rank of Major General ) in 1918.

Choi Hong Hi ( 9 November 1918 – 15 June 2002 ), also known as General Choi, was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of taekwondo.

* 1918 – Swiss General Strike