Word: outwitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
...actual portrayal of present day facts of government is one of the greatest needs of our country. In it lies the key to our future welfare. It is because corporations are guided by experts who know the facts and have followed the course of events that they can continually outwit the force of changing officials of the government who are unacquainted with their posts and have no time to learn their duties properly. No great republic has yet been able to use experts and retain its republican government; and it remains for us to find a means of using them...