Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based on nearly eight years of close association with him, I am convinced that he will give the nation a sound and successful administration of the Government and that he is supremely well qualified to deal with those great economic problems that influence so directly and to such a very large extent the prosperity...
...enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master issued precepts of education that were long and thoroughly successful. His Roman sternness lost the Academy one type of genius, of Edgar Allen Poe was dismissed after eight months of stormy revolt; but under Major Thayer, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee learned lessons that helped at least the latter to his military ascendancy...
...study of tactics. They are excluded from all society except that of the corps. As evidence of the rigid discipline and requirements, we perceive by the Register of the Officers and Cadets, that out of 210 cadets who are examined at the general examination in June last forty-eight were found deficient and turned back to recommence the studies of their perspective classes...
...these barriers being safely surmounted, the candidate must swear the oath of allegiance and pledge himself to serve in the Army for eight years after his admission to West Point...
...political party which has included among its leading officials men guilty of conspiracy, fraud, and the concealment of vital evidence might well to its own advantage be deprived of power for a season. Men who for eight years have controlled the Republican party deserve to forfeit the confidence of the country. Neither the continued association of the Republican candidate with the reactionary element of the party nor his public utterances during the campaign give us any reason to believe that he has broken with that group. The best hope for a return to the liberalism of Roosevelt and Wilson lies...