Word: know
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Bailey at Camp Jackson is bound that his men shall know how to salute...
Swiftly the screen of circumstances is being shifted. In the space of twelve months hundreds of thousands of Americans have become security holders, many little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...
...Americans will be mobilized in the great struggle to preserve the principles upon which our republic was founded. Industrial leaders and leaders in Congress and in public office are busy devising plans and spending themselves, but we all know that in the last analysis it is the man who labors, the man who bears the heat and burden of the day either in the trenches or on the ships or in the yards or other manufacturing plants who is mainly responsible for the winning or losing of this group war.--Secretary Daniels, at Victory Plant, Squantum...
...into the war forbade our participation in anything more glorious than a triumphal march of occupation. For 1918 the outlook is changed. We see Russia reduced to impotence and the allied armies on the west front evacuating the positions won at so much cost in 1916 and 1917. We, know now that every combatant regiment overseas or training at home will suffer casualties in battle before triumphal marches signalize German defeat...
...this disorganization. In one place there may be an overwhelming demand for men of a certain trade but no men to take the jobs, so that less skilled men have to be used; while in another town there may be many men of the same trade who do not know where to turn for their own kind of work and are therefore forced into unskilled labor. Workmen are hired largely on chance and necessarily a large percentage are bound to be unsatisfactory, whereupon they are promptly discharged and new men taken on in an equally careless way. This creates...