Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past lamentable failure in the speedy building of the indispensable implements of modern war, and of the great transport fleet which alone will enable us to utilize our giant strength after we have developed it, must merely spur us on to efficient action in the present and the future. To refuse to see and to point out these failures is both silly and unpatriotic...
...whole-hearted immediate aim, Mr. Roosevelt concluded, must be to speed up the war in every possible way and at the earliest moment to make our military strength of decisive weight in Europe. Let us remember, he reminded his auditors, that "our troops fight abroad beside the Allies now so that at some future time they may not have to fight without allies beside their own ruined homes." This carried the 1,200 diners to their feet, cheering...
Even 25 tons is something to be considered in the present crisis. The recent Fuel Administration orders show how serious this is; but even so it is plain that we must not look to the coal directly saved as a very powerful argument in support of the plan. Its strength must be in indirect saving, such as lightening late traffic on the Subway, and making more feasible an earlier closing. Neither does the University stand alone. It would be part of a nation-wide effort to economize; and it is not improbable that many other universities and colleges would take...
With all the strength...
...course of training offered by the Wentworth Institute, President Williston said that its curriculum, although primarily one of peace-arts, was especially adaptable to trench-warfare. The instruction will be divided into six groups: the study of mass and reinforced concrete construction, timber instruction, laboratory instruction in testing the strength of materials, the rigging of lifting apparatus and the handling of heavy materials, electricity as applied to military tactics, and a study of hydraulics...