Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first question which we must ask regarding every question of public policy, however detailed it may be, is: How will it affect the redistribution of the national energy? Will it, or will it not, enable us to mass more man power at the points where it is needed to win...
...been directing their own energy and that of other people toward the objects of peace must, in many cases, be asked to rearrange their plans, their habits, and their work. The people concerned do not always see the connection between the change which is required of them and the winning of the war. Therefore they are sometimes impatient of the necessary discipline or restraint. Again, this redirection of the national energy necessarily involves more disarrangement of plans and change of occupation on the part of some than of others. They who were doing in time of peace things which...
This is not the time, therefore, to single out any particular group or class of citizens for reproach. All classes are equally guilty and equally meritorious. That is there are individuals in all classes who are willing to suffer inconvenience and hardship in order to win the war, and there are others who are not. There is not the slightest doubt that a strike in any essential industry is a hindrance to the great work of massing our man power at the points where it is needed. No loyal citizen who sees and understands that fact can possibly favor...
...scoundrel or a slacker. In fact, if there are others who are doing less than their share, that is the best reason in the world why I should do more than my share. That is the only way in which we shall ever get enough done to win this...
Although Worcester is said to have an unusually strong aggregation, the Freshman bid fair to give them a close contest and if present indications hold true stand an excellent chance to win the meet...