Word: lived
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...habit of men (who are cursed with memory and imagination) to romanticize over the past, or to idealize the future. That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...
...alone that stirs the continents. It is the travail of the new order of life which is to supercede the past. It is the unrest of men with conditions which have endured too long. The old order is shaken; we live in a volcanic...
...fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books" has been proved remarkably presumptuous long since. Man must read and our army is composed of men, not animals...
...23rd of July the command proceeded by train to Barre, Mass., where three weeks were spent in camp. Wall tents were secured from the National Guard for the staff and company officers, but the rank and file live in shelter tents. The weather was fortunately dry and little inconvenience was experienced...
...have the assurance that man may not live by bread alone; and on diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...