Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Motor answered their doubts. We proved to them that we could produce in sufficient quantities not only motors, but whole machines. Finally we convinced them that we could make the requisite number and quality of propellors,--a difficult problem. One can not help but express considerable satisfaction at the task we have accomplished under the skilled guidance of our allies...
...since the United States entered the war has peace seemed a more distant object than today. Nor has victory ever seemed to require such titanic effort. Even the most optimistic man now knits his brow and wonders how it is all coming out. We knew last April that our task was to be a terrible one, that we were going against a mass of forces which had never before been brought together in such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed sufficient...
Such knowledge will not terrify us or make us clamor for early peace. Rather will it make us think, feel the edge of our sword, and go on to finish a task clearly proved necessary. No careless, light hearted American army will now enter battle. It will be a large body of serious, determined men, who will push on to the end. They will not flinch, nor will their spirit weaken because they actually know how hard is the work ahead of them. That American spirit is now meeting its supreme test, but it will take more than rod-driven...
...There are really two problems bound up in the emergency program of the Shipping Board: first, the securing of large numbers of workmen who have been prepared in trades somewhat similar to those found in the shipyards; second, retention of these men in their tasks for the period of the war. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult one, and involves the task of the special training of men who must be quickly instructed in the great variety of mechanical trades connected with the fabrication and erection of steel ships...
...place in our war organization is the medical corps. A personal opinion that the strife will end before one's services are required reflects a short-sighted attitude. If we learn anything from the experience of England, we must prepare now for a long, difficult task...