Word: alignment
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...gaining political enlightenment from "any of several national publications of positive merits," and this carries with it the implication that he is capable of selecting just such publications. Presumably he knows precisely how to discount the influence of the editorial policy that, to the casual observer, has seemed to align most of the national publications of positive merit with one or another of the political parties, and to subject them to the influences of that party...
What the President has called on Secretary Wilson to do is tore-form his department and align it with the needs of the army, the navy, the nation. The new establishment will include a countrywide system of labor exchanges, all under one direction; a plan for the adequate training of workers, as agency to direct the supply of labor to the industries essential to the public welfare, instruments for the adjustment of disputes and machinery to safeguard workers at their tasks and in their homes...
...true sportsman," he said, "takes little satisfaction in winning a race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...