Word: attached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of State makes a statement about a foreign navy, he will not later have to retract it. This seems a step which should have been taken long ago. From its very nature naval information is hard to check-every nation tries to conceal its naval secrets. Naval attachés make such observations as they can, but it is practically impossible to get direct information from a foreign government...
...personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student is responsible until the final examination for his degree. It may be that the tutor can be adapted to our program without radical change...
...Extremely unfortunate," says the Soviet government; "we have not enough farm implements or livestock to till the grain field." Then the American attaché at Berlin reports: The German government has bought 1,400,000 bushels of wheat from Russia. It is about to be shipped from Black Sea ports. Further reports indicate that thousands of tons of grain are being exported over the Finnish border and from Odessa and Novorossysk on the Black Sea. There can be but one conclusion-that the Soviet government prefers exporting grain to feeding its starving peasants...
...although the merest newcomer when compared with the one at Oxford, has already established a record and a name for itself. Its larger growth will be but a matter of time. And while it is growing it is also bringing to the University the added instruction which must invariably attach itself to any task of such merit. Advancing at its present high standard, there is no reason why its name should not reach to every corner of civilization, as that of its predecessor in England has already done. Printing has made wide-spread culture possible; it has also brought...
...reason that the system has not yet been successful is not far to seek. Hitherto neither the College Office, the Senior class, or the Freshmen have taken an strive interest in its workings. Realizing this to be the case, efforts have been made this year to attach more importance to the work of advising...