Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening at 7 o'clock. Since only little over a week remains before the annual festivity is to take place, it is necessary that as many members of the class as possible be present at the meetings in their respective dormitories tonight in order to make the singing a success...
...that the performance of the choruses was entirely creditable, but he is most dissatisfied with the number of men coming out. The committee has encountered serious difficulty in getting up sufficient interest in the singing, and unless the class as a whole makes a vigorous effort to make a success of the jubilee, it is more than likely that the festivities will have to be given up this year after all, as it is already extremely late in the season...
...platoon leader. The former makes the plans for the army and issues orders. Then the various divisional, brigade, and regimental officers repeat these commands after camouflaging them in different ways. It is the platoon leader who carries out these orders, and he alone is responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should, his platoon will be a machine that can overcome the disciplined hosts of the Kaiser. But if he lacks that absolute knowledge he will lack self-confidence and character...
Furthermore, you are preparing for a still greater work. Victory will mean nothing unless the victors are ready to make use of it. In a great military operation, large reserves are necessary to exploit a success. In the war itself there is need of vast reserves of energy and of intelligence to insure, after the victory, the resumption and continuation and expansion of national activity. In every walk of life there will be empty places everywhere there will be need of trained and developed men to fill those empty places, immediately and effectively. Every one of you, in the special...
Public opinion and the light of criticism are indispensable to the success of popular government. In times of war, however, they must be tempered by the incontravertible necessity of centralization of power and responsibility. America now has its powerful administration; England long ago created its war council. They both are actuated by the principle that democratic forms must be sacrificed in times of national emergency. They allow for healthy criticism, but they demand a complete freedom from petty interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible...