Word: creation
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...organization of distinct corps of artillery and engineers, and the creation of a new rank, the cadets, occurred in 1794. Seven years later one George Barron undertook to conduct an acaartillery and engineers, and the creademy for the few cadets then in service; but, says the Colonel of the Corps, "the Institution soon ran into disorder, and the Teacher into contempt." Under Government management, however, the Academy began to broaden its scope of learning, and the early curriculum of Mathematics and Engineering was supplemented by Frence and Drawing. At that time the 30 odd cadets lived in barracks dating from...
This system is the creation of the Corps. It is handled solely from within. The punishment for deliberate dishonor is the silence. To the Corps the man is dead. He moves in complete dissociation from all other men. His one recourse is to resign, for the silence will follow him all his life. He will be a marked man. He has had his trial he has been fairly judged, and there is no appeal...
...financial world, there are daily developments indicative of . . . creation of larger units. Gigantic mergers, capital increases, large new banks, additional branch offices testify that banking is following the lead of Big Business...
...deference of the incumbency until a man worthy of it may be named goes toward the creation of a precedent that will be permanent in its standard of excellence. In such light must this year's vacancy be regarded. And the advent next fall of Professor Garrod, editor of the Oxford Book of Latin Verse, must fully compensate to those who still remain to hear, for the present want...
...Creation she owns...