Word: building
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German policy when, after the Naval Reserve had taken to sea in their motley array of ships, no enemy was found willing to do battle. Our vigil little by little relaxed, the crews ceased to open fire on every inoffensive porpoise, and the Navy Department began to build 110-footers to go abroad and do our fighting there. Just when all was serene and quiet the Teuton struck and as usual he did a thorough job. About ten United States ships have gone to the bottom and still the U boats are at large...
...hard to remember everything this afternoon. Every hand raised in ranks and every infraction of strict discipline will be an illuminating commentary on our former laxity and a lesson for next year. For our experience has shown us that it takes more than two weeks, however intense, to build up any real discipline...
...school for general officers, which was begun at Camp Devens yesterday, should do more to build up coordination among all the arms of the service than any other effort yet undertaken in the cantonments on this side of the water. Its story, however, has not all been told when this point has been set down to its credit. Another great advantage of the new school is the recognition it gives to the fact that no man can successfully be both teacher and pupil at the same time. In all his work as chief of the American Expeditionary Force, General Pershing...
...have more men. Let us have more camps and cantonments. Let us begin to build them now and speed them to completion with all the boasted American energy and drive. It takes three months to build a cantonment. It takes from six to eight months to make men into soldiers ready to go overseas. We must make our plans now for next year...
...banker once said, "If I could place to the credit of each man and woman in the community a savings deposit of one dollar I could make thrifty thousands where there have been only thousands of spenders, and I could build the greatest bank per population in the land...