Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sewall left the University for overseas in 1917, first entering the ambulance service. In December he applied for service with the American Army and began training as an aviator. At the time of his exploit he had been in the active flying service just three weeks...
Furthermore, you are preparing for a still greater work. Victory will mean nothing unless the victors are ready to make use of it. In a great military operation, large reserves are necessary to exploit a success. In the war itself there is need of vast reserves of energy and of intelligence to insure, after the victory, the resumption and continuation and expansion of national activity. In every walk of life there will be empty places everywhere there will be need of trained and developed men to fill those empty places, immediately and effectively. Every one of you, in the special...
...give the first place in his thoughts to an after the-war future or after-the-war reconstruction until he is absolutely assured that he is doing his part in during the war service to insure the existence of an after-the-war civilization to exploit or rebuild. Our immediate and all-obscuring national aim is victory, and no man with talents to assist in its consummation can be absolved from the duty of direct service unless the remainder of his college course will directly increase his powers of assistance...
President Eliot was the principal speaker at the meeting of the association in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston University. He was followed by Professor Paul Shorey of Chicago University, who was frank in his criticism of the tendency to exploit new ideas to the discredit of the older methods which had stood the test of time...
...fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them. All of which is their hard luck and not ours...