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No task of such magnitude has ever before been undertaken by any nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better performed.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “No task of such magnitude has ever before been undertaken by any nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better…”
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He asserts that the Panama Canal project is unprecedented in scale and execution.
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