Word: avail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which constitutes the loss. It is the unfulfilled promise, the vacant years, the deeds not done which might have been well done, the cutting short of a strong man's life. For the loss of these no vacant praise, nor deeper memory, nor most bitter grief may at all avail...
Russia, from which many of them came, does not need them, but she would avail herself of them as well as we. If they desire to upheave the world, and to mould it afresh in the image of their own desires they had far better begin in the land which was unfortunate enough to bring them forth, and among peoples of whose kin they are. If they desire absolute liberty of action, they had far better go to some uninhabited and desolate isle. For only when there are no other men within the bounds of intercourse may a man enjoy...
...before the cold and searching judgment of the future with only our accomplishment to justify us. If the national courage which animates our people in this year, 1917, be slight or lacking, not all the honor of past years, not all their striving, not all their victory, will avail to condone our own failure...
...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...
...death of a man who has lived a long and complete life, fulfilling with honor the task he was set to do, has in it something of climax which robs the inevitable end of much of its sorrow. Yet even such consolation may avail little in considering the death of Joseph H. Choate...