Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good measure for peace as well as in time of war. The overshadowing reason for its adoption at this time is that it will result in saving for next winter coal which otherwise will be needlessly used earlier. Just now Americans everywhere are in good position to understand what that Means. --New York Herald...
...conclusion, he reminded the R. O. T. C. cadets of Clausewitz's words: "War is only a continuation of State policy by other means. The most decisive act of judgment of the statesman and general is to understand correctly the war in which he engages, not to take it for something which by the nature of the case it cannot possibly...
...right clearly presents itself. As a poet has said, border, breed or birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic sophistry prompted this letter from the law students of Buenos Aires. It was the expression of opinion of a class of men who think...
...Crothers went on to say that he could not understand how anyone could go on doing now just what he had done before the war. "Determine to lead a soldierly life right now," he advised," and by being soldierly, I mean possessing not only the quality of obedience, but also that of generalship. Be commander-in-chief of all the forces under you power, and marshal them for the fight now and after...
...order that undergraduates may understand the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa, and the requirements for election to it, the following sketch of the society's history and ideals is pointed...