Word: genius
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Every administrative officer has been subjected to public abuse, and many officials have been accused of willfully holding up the great national work. The New York Times, a powerful Democratic organ, has devoted a series of editorials to the argument that the President, despite his great genius for moral and intellectual leadership, has handicapped his administration by appointing "unfit men to places of very great trust and responsibility," and by retaining them "after their unfitness has been demonstrated...
Leaders of troops are hose fitted by superior training, knowledge or genius for the position. So many years at a military institution or a certain rank in some training corps does not make anyone even a non-com. It is the experience gained in preparatory regiments, in addition to natural or acquired ability, that wins high positions. Because a cadet has graduated from the R. O. T. C. he will not reach his goal, but because he has fitted himself sufficiently to be superior to those whom he leads he will. Since the leaders are the best men possible, whoever...
...possible that in its later stages, as new genius is evolved, the war may lose its earlier anonymity. For of course, the personal equation must remain the determining factor. Yet if our Civil War offers a precedent, there will need to be a considerable winnowing ere the final heroes are upheaved. Boston Advertiser
...confidence and determination of their chief, English sailors won undying fame for England. Today in similar circumstances a new leader sounds a new call for action, and in all the Allied countries arise the hopes for a decisive and final blow. Under leaders who have combined military genius and the art of inspiring, the English have never been stopped. The next few days will show whether Haig and Byng can show such a combination...
...suddenly seized with the conviction that he is not being true to himself as a painter. Why should he thwart his innate genius by painting in accustomed ways? So he exhibits his originality by delineating a cotangent and a secant descending a staircase under the last X-rays of the setting...