Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Major General Summerall was passed up in favor of Major General Hines. Last month some military prophets wondered whether these same influences would again result in the appointment of another Pershing favorite, Major General Hanson E. Ely. Commandant of the Army War College, who is only eight months younger than Major General Summerall. However, Secretary of War Davis is a staunch believer in the seniority rule and Major General Summerall has a brilliant record, so his appointment was no surprise...
...situated in the old buildings in Boston when I was a student," said the younger Edison in speaking of his college days. "I took a general science course and although I never was particularly interested in scientific subjects, I felt that I should have some foundation of that sort. In the first place I was never any good at technical problems, and in the second, my younger brother Theodore early showed a decided tendency to develop along the lines of my father and a desire to work in conjunction with...
...look now for the favorable judgment of your elders, --of parents and teachers and older students; but these elders will not be your final judges, and you had better get ready now in college to appear before the ultimate tribunal, the tribunal of your contemporaries and the younger generations. It is the judgment of your contemporaries that is most important to you, and you will find that the judgment of your contemporaries made up alarmingly early; it may be made up this year in a way that sometimes lasts for a life and beyond. It is made up in part...
...Then the youthful Firpo charged the champion Dempsey and knocked him down and over the ropes and out of the ring, and for a short time it looked as if the younger man had won the fight. But Dempsey, pausing for an instant only, rushed back into the ring, waded into his youthful antagonist and beat him to a standstill, a triumph of brain and courage over youth and ignorance...
More than half a century ago, a man-child was born near Marietta, Ga. Two years later, his mother presented him with a little brother. They were not long in becoming rough kids, always fighting together against outsiders, always scrapping each other. In after years, the younger brother wrote TIME the first letter which it ever published, saying that he always used to lick his big brother (TIME, Sept. 29, 1924). These fisticuffing lads were the McAdoo brothers: William Gibbs, elder; Malcolm Ross, younger...