Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alleging self-protection as the cause for its acts. The recent series of affrays in Matewan, West Virginia, have already cost a dozen lives, detectives, strikers, and peaceful citizens being numbered among the slain. Such futile affairs as this need never occur, if only employer and employee alike could learn to refrain from provoking their opponents...
Since the armistice, thousands of permanent officers in both branches of the service have been forced to resign by reason of underpay. We are glad to learn that Congress has at last seen the danger which lies in such a wholesale depletion of our armed establishment, and after a long delay has agreed to grant some relief. The present increase is scanty enough; but it is better than nothing. It is the first alteration in the scale of officers' pay for over fifteen years. Hitherto, a second lieutenant received only $1700 a year; and the higher grades have been almost...
...Conger '94 that the Military Intelligence Department attained such a high grade of efficiency during the war. General Mangin, of the French Army, in speaking of General Nolen's work, said: "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American staff to learn to function properly under modern conditions...
...been arranged for all members of the first-year men enter industrial employment during the summer months in the line of work in which they are specializing in the School. The Administrative Office undertakes to procure the positions, in which, while receiving a nominal salary, the men will learn from the inside the particular industry in which they are concentrating, as a complement to class-room lectures and term time work. In many cases this summer work will form the basis for the theses required of all men during their second year. The School will receive reports...
...harm done, when the League of Nations was abandoned by the United States. The tribunal derived its greatest power from the might of moral right. How could it fail to lose prestige when its chief exponent deserted it for avowedly materialistic, selfish reasons? But we shall some day learn our lesson, when we come to realize that whatever affects the world peace affects us. May we never have to learn this again by being dragged into a world-war! But find it out, we will. Then, in spite of our Lodges and Borahs and the drivel of "button-hole patriots...