Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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"Discipline has a broader significance than mere punishment. ... It is secured through mental, moral and physical training combined with an intelligent understanding of the reasons for standards and conduct and the objectives in view. . . . Poor discipline is generally the result of inferior leadership and is evidenced by excessive courts-martial...
After three days the German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk...
When asked to make a statement concerning Maple's expulsion, Colonel Jay asserted that the action had been taken only after thorough investigation had convinced him that Maple was not fit material for an officer." Colonel Jay would not elaborate further. Maple had been in his fourth year of Military...
De Voto further explained that if Parkman had employed the same historical acumen in the "Oregon Trail" that he later showed in his studies of pre-Revolutionary Canada, that book would have been invaluable history as well as fiction.
Contrasting his mission in the United States today with his appearance here in 1917 and '18 as the representative of a conquering power, Professor Andre Morize, Professor of French Literature, strongly urged the sending of war relief to nations overrun by the German armies, during a meeting called last night...