Word: younger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Transvaal issued an ultimatum which no nation could stand, and since the condition of two-thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England had not interfered...
...probable make-up of the eleven, Cunnha, who played on the Freshman eleven, may be counted upon to fill Cutten's place at centre. For right guard, the three prominent candidates are Brown, the left guard's younger brother, who has played on the Groton school eleven the past two years; Gaylord, the former Lawrenceville guard; and Young '01, who was on last year's scrub. It is in filling right tackle, ex-Captain Chamberlin's position, that the most difficulty is anticipated. Not only are the candidates for it players of little experience, but they have shown nothing more...
...received his LL. B. degree. He began the practice of law in Boston, being associated successively with Messrs. Morse and Stone, and as a partner with the late George R. Fowler. So marked were his abilities as an advocate that he speedily took a high place among the younger trial lawyers...
...goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger Dumas...
...Musset may be called a great nervous child. All who came into contact with him even in his younger days noticed his mobility and that gaiety of heart which with him always ended in tears. He was a Parisian and the air of Paris is exciting. He was a disciple of Voltaire and of the Eighteenth Century. If he attacked Voltaire most bitterly, it was because he felt Voltaire's spirit within him. He had a taste for the luxuries of life. He was at his ease only in distinguished surroundings. He was mondain...