Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers-all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts-officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their men could always see it. Excerpts...
...Butler has the crust to maintain that the Columbia faculty is still free. As every Nazi is free to agree with the official dicta, so every Columbia teacher is now free to follow the University in its "lofty...