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...Four out of five youngsters (including almost half of the married couples) are living with their parents. Only 3% of the unmarried ones want to leave home. Nearly all want to marry, have a home and children (but not so many as their parents). Youth is still marrying early; median marrying age of the Maryland boys was 21, of the girls, 19, and 13% of the brides had married at 16 or younger...
Work: The commission estimated that 3,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 16 and 24 today are unemployed. Three out of ten in Maryland were jobless, and some had been looking as long as seven years for their first full-time job. Median pay of the youngsters with jobs was $12.96 a week...
...reading, arithmetic, language usage and spelling, Roslyn's 900 elementary schoolchildren are slightly below normal, but the reason is not a failure in instruction but the fact that their average intelligence is below par (median I. Q.: 96).* The committee concluded the children were performing up to their ability...
...view when they returned. But no longer was a majority of the class in favor of Government ownership of utilities. Learning for the first time that there were two sides to the question, enough pro-Government-ownership students had switched to an undecided or opposite position to make the median score of the class neutral...
...given year, Love on the Run should win it. From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...