Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves, despite the election, he intends to carry out his old program to the bitter end. If he succeeds in doing so, and the present list of Navy awards goes down on the official records, there will at least be some satisfaction in knowing that it is the final thrust at a Department which has suffered for eight years under an orgy of willful stubbornness and blind inefficiency...
...practical administrator he is surely excelled by none. In view of the tremendous-scope of the administrative duties thrust upon the president today, it is of first importance that the president should be a man of great administrative capacity. The danger of a serious break-down of the administrative machinery of the nation is so imminent, and the effects would be so far-reaching and disastrous, that we cannot afford to elect a man whose administrative capacity has not been tested and proved...
...assistance to him in after life. Absorbed in its desire to give students an "academic education," the University is apt to overlook the importance of leaving with its members something to guide them in the days that follow graduation. The result has been that the young University man is thrust from the shelter of his alma mater into the maze of the world, knowing not which path to select. His educational training has in many cases failed to give him any basis upon which to judge where his real interest lies or in what field he can be most useful...