Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...depressing according to the age of men. The more stable has a man's mode of living become, the more he fears to see that mode thrown out of use, usurped by newer events. So at the outbreak of war on old men falls the horror of war, on young men the need of war, and on younger men the excitement...
...nations as in men leads to the accomplishment of stirring deeds, and the overleaping of the slow ways of commonsense. But in this war, which is one without romance and without chivalry, we have no resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...
...will make a great difference twenty years from now. Unless the unforseen happens, within the next year, many courageous young men will be called on to pay the last tribute to their nation. Other men who, not from weakness, but by chance, having fought well and side by side with those who perish, are left unscathed by war, will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid...
...buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
Some of those theological students or young ministers who are yet new to their work might find here splendid opportunity for the service of man to which they have earnestly consecrated their lives. Their intelligence and facility would amend in part their lack of technical training. So also those of the Society of Friends who hold strongly to the tenets of their faith, could help their fellow-men faithfully, and earn in an inoblivious way the right to their cordial name...