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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does the waste mean "the loss"?
Context:
A Pround Medical Tradition
In all wars up until the Russo-Japanese War, it had been known that the "silent enemy"-disease-took a greater toll of lives among fighting men than did bullets. With the outbreak of the conflict with Russia, Japan made history by resolving to learn from her mistakes. Chastened by the waste represented by sickness-induced casualties that she had suffered in her recent war with China, she paind an exstraordinary amount of attention to curbing battlefield illness. By the beginning of the twentieth century...
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http://www.google.co.jp/books?id=cprBEpxvexgC&printsec=frontcover&hl=zh-CN&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true
A Pround Medical Tradition
In all wars up until the Russo-Japanese War, it had been known that the "silent enemy"-disease-took a greater toll of lives among fighting men than did bullets. With the outbreak of the conflict with Russia, Japan made history by resolving to learn from her mistakes. Chastened by the waste represented by sickness-induced casualties that she had suffered in her recent war with China, she paind an exstraordinary amount of attention to curbing battlefield illness. By the beginning of the twentieth century...
More:
http://www.google.co.jp/books?id=cprBEpxvexgC&printsec=frontcover&hl=zh-CN&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true
Top answer
NL888 Does the waste mean "the loss"? (Original post) Yes.
- NL888 Does the waste mean "the loss"?
- (Original post) Yes.
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