Word: adult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mayor of Minneapolis, the man who helped put together Minnesota's humpty-dumpty Democratic-Farmer-Labor ticket, the clever and determined tactician who led and won the civil rights fight at the Democratic Convention last summer. One thing, above all, explains his way of thinking: all of his adult life has been spent in the era of Franklin Roosevelt. His dad, and the Dust Bowl taught him most of what he knows...
...line with its practice of treating the student as an adult, Harvard has, in the past, seemed to favor the let-the-student-take-the-initiative approach to the problem of advising. There are situations, however, in which this system fails. Despite the old adage, what one doesn't know can hurt...
Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
After several months they were joined by a boy, Daniele, whose middle-class parents had been killed in the raid. Forced to assume adult responsibilities and overwhelmed by more than adult miseries, these four children drift and suffer, snatching moments of happiness, the full meaning of which they are too young-or perhaps already too old-to grasp...
...Setting the objectives of adult education as "an understanding of American democratic society and its historic goals, and a dissection of Soviet philosophy and an exposure of its methods...