Word: aright
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...applied science will affect both the relation of men to one another and the interdependence of different peoples is as yet unknown; nor will it be wholly settled for a generation to come, even if no further scientific discoveries and inventions are made. Who will determine these new relations aright? Upon whom will the guidance for better or worse rest? Obviously upon the intelligent, the educated and the public spirited people of the world. Will they set themselves earnestly to this gigantic task, or will they immerse themselves in their private pursuits and pleasures and let things drift...
Sitting in the chair of authority--dealing with actual business--learning by applying what you learned--with experts correcting your errors, commending good work, guiding you aright through all the ramifications, routine and emergency situations of the entire accounting field and making you make good every step of the way--mind--not in a class room, but right in a business office where you would be actually doing the work you were training...
...country is limited in its moral freedom of action by the duties that it owes to other portions of mankind. Future wars, future calamities, future miseries incalculable, or, on the other hand, future prosperity, future intellectual and spiritual advance, may depend upon solving these questions aright; and by the solution of these questions I mean their solution by the balance of the opinions of all individual...
...community at large; and if not, what are the proper limitations? Again, it is not my object here to express or imply answers to such questions, but to point out that they require answers; because the tranquility and welfare of our country depends upon their being answered aright, and no man, whatever his position in life, can wholly free himself from the responsibility for the opinions he holds about them. As a people we are highly sensitive to public opinion, and that is made up of personal opinions held by each and all of us. We cannot, like the subjects...
...military power, and partly because the world's very inadequate sense of interdependence has distorted both its political and social sense. The failure of preponderant military power to achieve its anticipated economic and social ends, revealed by the present situation of the Allied nations in Europe, may, if read aright, lead us to sounder social conceptions...