Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest kind of work can a man become an officer and a college graduate at one and the same time. Boston Transcript...
This is no time for protest. In union there is strength, and the slang "crabbing" must be kept out of our national vocabulary. Yet we cannot help feeling that the War Department has erred. To shelve a leader is not the easiest way to win the war. A good general in France is worth many in San Francisco...
...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...
...that it must remain. Discipline among friends is a difficult proposition; there is a constant temptation to visit the top-sergeant tell him a sad story about how much work you had, and then remind him of what good friends you two have always been. This is the easiest way to escape demerits, but it is also the most unmilitary. Letters from our men at Yaphank emphasize the fact that the Harvard men know the game better than the draftees, but that many others make more efficient soldiers because they are better disciplined. Lack of discipline is the fundamental weakness...
...easy to think with the crowd; and the thoughts of men, like electricity, choose the easiest way. Yet all the more, when men force themselves to think alone, they are like electricity which, meeting an obstruction, overleaps it with a speed that may be heard ten thousand miles...