Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused, however. The posts were supposed to be protected by a pitiful little band of policemen. That was a challenge not to be refused. The joy of assaulting of fibers...
Those near him declared that the expression of the Duce's face did not change. He sat quite still while the mob closed in upon his would-be assassin. Strong hands strangled the youth. Fourteen knives plunged into his flesh. Stripped, beaten to a pulp, dead, his body, unrecognizable, was eventually recovered by the police...
Immediately afterward Secretary General Augusto Turati of the Fascist Party issued a proclamation: "The first gesture of justice has been accomplished. Now the accomplices of this youth must be sought out and punished...
...with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan...
...time that a Y. M. C. A. officer had been asked to address a Roman Catholic educational institution.* The Secretary expressed himself "delighted," forthwith canceled other engagements, went to Loyola, spoke. Said he: "It is a happy occasion . . . two great movements come together ... for discussion of common problems . .. everywhere youth is more and more reflecting the influence of Christ...