Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aspire to the editorial board one must in addition be able to think, really the most important qualification of all. Nothing else is required and the benefit which will be derived by any individual will be proportionate to the amount of interest and energy he puts into his task...
...President Roosevelt. Mr. Wilson's most notable work was his prompt crystallization in aresting phrases of the basic principles of the Allied cause, an accomplishment which came just in time to knit up loose ends of the national fabric in more Allied countries than one. He interpreted humanity's task in a way that solidified public opinion the world over and made it harder for every cynical doubter to do the Kaiser's work...
Restrictions on the investment of private capital should at once be removed. Business men should be allowed the greatest possible freedom in engineering the gigantic task of setting our peace time industries once more on a firm footing. This, however, should not be interpreted as to mean the freedom to impose upon labor the unfair conditions which prevailed before the war. The laboring classes are universally demanding for themselves a reasonable return from the product of their labor and the permanent establishment of the eight-hour day in nearly all kinds of industry. It is only by meeting these demands...
...along here that all the fighting is now going on in which the American troops are taking part. It was a difficult task that had been given them--to clear the Argonne Forest of Germans, but it has been done at a great cost. However, the fighting is now in the open and things ought to go on more rapidly...
...their work just as loyally and faithfully as if the war were still going on. No army order ever ventured to assert that the duty of the soldier to obey is in any way lessened in time of peace. To be true to his oath, he must perform whatever task is allotted him with the best of good-will and cheerfulness...