Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Frequenters of a hotel dining room discover portions greatly reduced, and immediately want to know why the prices are not reduced accordingly. In the same way, people carry home bundles from the stores and pay cash, but are not certain that their teamwork benefits anyone except the merchant...
They have studied the I.D.R. until they know the school of the regiment backwards, they can mount and relieve the guard, and single-handed, can pursue the husky Hun back to the gates of Berlin--on paper; all this without a waver or differing in one detail from established precedent...
...organization evolves into public ownership, as it has done in the past and as it will doubtless continue to do. It is very possible that there may be some form of public control which is compatible with private ownership. This much is certain, however, that government regulation as we know it is not that form. The industrial system of today is an evolution from competition to monopoly to public ownership...
...field," declared Colonel Azan. "Although I am very busy with my other camps I have not ceased to be interested in the training which Lieutenant Morize has given during the year of 1917-18. I was very favorably impressed today. I know that these young men have had only a few afternoons of drill with the whole regiment...
...officers, conducted at Harvard at the close of the R. O. T. C. session, and by all odds the best of its kind ever held in this country, was abandoned after only one lot of 550 of our officers, old and young, had received instruction in it. Now we know that there is no mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic is what General Pershing is doing behind...