Word: untold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have had Plattsburg camps, hurry-up training schools for officers at the colleges and in the cantonments and we still have them. They are of untold importance for the supply of a need we could not meet, under existing circumstances, in any other way. Yet at best, they are only a partial substitute for those deeper laid foundations of an officer's efficiency which are possible only with years of training and upon a program of well-rounded development such as Princeton's commandant, Major John A. Pearson, U. S. A., has provided. It is the more nature advantages which...
...Practically speaking, the actual gunners will mean no more to the infantry than did the red flags, unless, of course, they set up a real barrage, which would be quite out of the question. It is true that the simultaneous working of the two arms would be of untold practical benefit to those directing the maneuvers, but were the theory of any value in the initial training of individuals it would have been taken up long ago in our national cantonments. Very properly, it has been left to form part of the final stages of instruction in France...
...helping the wounded man, it does work of infinite value for the well soldier behind the lines and in the rest camps, and also for the ten million homeless, ill-fed and wandering children, without parents, schools or churches. For these children the Red Cross is doing work of untold importance. It is also taking care of the old people who are being sent into France by the thousands, without property, hungry and almost without clothing...
Other service there is which calls for peaceful men. The ravages of battle leave untold numbers of the wounded, whose life or whose last comfort depends on the ministration of trained healers. Ambulance drivers, nurses, hospital attendants, they all, without even that indirect share in the devastation which we may lay on a munitions worker help in the work which is to be done in the noblest way that may be done...
...send great armies to Europe of a half-million men of five million men if we need to do so. That is in accord with our strength. Yet five hundred thousand men alone will not turn the tide of war to victory. We need arms, we need ammunition to untold amounts, we need supplies of all kinds, to elevate our troops to the high necessities of continuous and hard battle...