Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool," by Mr. Putnam, there is little attempt at characterization, and even here it is rather rudimentary. The one article "Concerning the Young Russians" is interesting and well-informed, though more might, with justice, be said for Artsybashey and the philosophical significance and artistic quality of his novels, "Sanine" and "The Breaking Point...
...first impulse of young men to seek action wherever there is possibility of service with danger or excitement to give it zest. The ultimate uselessness of such early service is patent. The lessons of England, the lessons of our past, our own wisdom in the true needs of national security, all show that such hasty enlistment means in the end only weakness...
...Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service to be established at Squantum this summer. This school, which will open about June 1 and will be conducted by one of the subcommittees of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, is intended to supply the navy with a carefully selected body of young men sufficiently trained and skilled to pass any tests for provisional enrolment in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps or Class V of the United States Naval Reserve Force...
...question before Congress is a more difficult and intricate one. The proper solution will result in this first increment being a democratic, fair selection from the large numbers of our young men, which will go out as a democratic contribution from a great democracy to aid in restoring the freedom and privileges of democracy to the suffering people of a stern autocracy...
...Canada, have been affected to a very great extent by the present war, according to statements received from those respective countries. In most cases the universities have been able to run with greatly reduced registration; some have had to stop altogether and some have had enough extra men, too young to enlist, to extent their registration almost to the same extent as it was before...