Word: grafting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little of our war activity leaves much to be desired. Many complain of politics; graft has at times been rife; inefficiency has characterized and will continue to characterize many branches of our military machine. On the whole, however, our horizon is brightening as we are finding our war-time stride. The prospects of the coming year point to a great weight in America's participation in the world struggle...
...into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra-man'--so my chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though in a way also...
...investigation of country and world economics is important to progress. But the question arises, who shall conduct this experimentation? Under an ideal system the scientist, not the politician, would direct the work. For past history in the physical and agricultural departments of the United States reveals the presence of graft and the spoils system...
...system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced as misdirected. Of what value are powerful armies and navies, it asks, when we have no minimum standard of living? It proceeds by demanding an elimination of all graft, and an unlimited appropriation for educating alike the thousands who dig ditches and the scores who direct corporations. The author advocates "some good way of combining democratic distribution with efficient production in our great industries," failing completely to realize that the two are incompatible. It is just such things...
This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...