Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Labor is not entitled to any special privileges in its contribution to the winning of the war, but it is entitled to a square deal. Good wages and fair hours--long hours and hard work, all this is no more than what our boys are joyfully, cheerfully giving in camp and at the front. But Uncle Sam is doing everything in his power to make life wholesome and clean for these boys and the country has responded with unexampled generosity to every appeal. This is splendid and what it should...
...comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every man who has the winning of this war at heart push this work forward.--From statement by R. Clipston Sturgis...
...most satisfying to see the results of your year's work. It shows that while things seemed slow and uninteresting during the winter you all were learning wonderfully well the idea of the battle formations, and you are now doing excellently as a result. It is a good omen of what fine work we may do in the future, and I am very glad indeed...
...they do them. Upon being censored we are wont to worry a few moments and then relapse into our old ways. Last night we were told the same story, but in a different way, and we hope, with a different effect. Colonel Applin openly and in good, clear English remarked that he was not impressed with our work, that we are half-hearted in our drill, and, in short, that the discipline, appearance and marching of both our R. O. T. C. and that of Yale is decidedly...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...