Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history and government experts agree that when the fighting is over then the most difficult questions will have to be decided and decided by you. For that reason, keep on the job' right here until the order comes...
Just how much to blame the Russian people for going back on their allies is difficult to say. To pity them rather than curse them is the fairest way, for there is no sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them...
...comparatively easy to send out a patriotic appeal for workmen to enter the shipbuilding industry on the basis of the supreme need for ships in our present war crisis. The matter of selecting those who offer their services is a very much more difficult question...
...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...