Word: gone
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Greek professor could not well be improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested the power of Andrew Undershaft, and Mr. Conway Tearle, the immortal Bill Walker, both having gone onto other boards. Mr. Herbert Druce, who played the elder Undershaft, is by no means mediocre, but there is a tinge of great power in the munitions-maker which at times he missed. Mr. Lewis Edgar was a good Bill Walker. A certain nervousness and rushing, however, clouded his part...
...would not otherwise have studied philosophy at all enrolled for one or more courses just to be in contact with the department's distinguished men. Of the five men mentioned above, Muensterberg was the only survivor. James and Royce are dead, Palmer has retired and Santayana has gone back to his native Europe, where his sympathies always were...
...take the Yale-Princeton game. One of the teams had worked the ball down to its opponents' five-yard line with a sure chance of a touchdown, when one of the players held in the line. The ball went back fifteen yards and the chance to score was gone. Did this funny business pay whereby one member's rank foolishness spoiled the chance of a much-desired victory...
...fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare to think about...
...from that time on the way would be easier. However, he was not to go further, his life was demanded as the ultimate payment for his services to industry and his country. But he died a winner in the game of life. In his brief 24 years he had gone where very few are destined to go in their whole life; along unexplored paths where he could satisfy his desire for truly constructive work...