Word: fellowing
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Universal & Permanent. Eli Whitney, an 18th Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
Still a third method employed in the goal of character training is the Honor System, a code rooted in absolute truthfulness and honesty to his fellow-Cadets and to his officers. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker formulated the theory behind the Honor system by saying...
...virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter of pride but rather of stein military necessity that makes West Point require of her students a character for trustworthiness that knows no evasions...
...declared that though science has eliminated most of the fears of environment, it has substituted the more dangerous fear of our fellow...
...group adopted an 80-word constitution and heard Aldric Revell, Nieman Fellow here and vice-president of the Wisconsin CIO, call the Socialists "the only party that can stop the cycle of boom and bust...