Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rowing is riding the crest of a success wave. The Varsity has soundly thrashed the men from New Haven for five straight years, and all four Crimson eights--Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshman and combination--have triumphed at New London for the last three years...
Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25? for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts...
...morning last week, Walter, a junior in Rutgers University, went to Markert's office with his father. Mr. Freiwald waited while the two osteopaths placed Walter on an operating table. Markert, assuming that he was within the law by acting as Maxfield's assistant, gave the boy ether. Maxfield then began to snip out the right tonsil, he said...
...Self-Made Man." Medium-brown Chester Olivier, 16, is also lower-middle class, the son of a Creole artisan who deserted his wife and four children for a mistress. But Chester is on the way up. Prodded by his ambitious mother, smart Chester is now a junior in a private prep school, active in dramatics, vice president of his class, goes to dances with lightskinned, upper-class girls, teaches Sunday school in the Methodist Church (higher in the social scale than his mother's Spiritualist Church), was recently voted "fifth most popular Negro in New Orleans...
This blast upset Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...