Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Dodger, whose pinch single in the playoffs helped win the pennant last Tuesday, thus boosted Los Angeles into a 2-1 lead...
...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...
Working retrospectively, he found that if the table had been applied when these boys were six years old it would have predicted that 92 per cent of them were destined to become delinquents...
...most important fact to come out of the study for Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, was that half of the delinquents had been less than eight years old when marked signs of their antisocial tendencies first became evident, and nine-tenths of the 500 had manifested these tendencies before reaching 11 years of age. This new knowledge, coupled with the previous discovery that about 75 per cent of adult offenders had been juvenile delinquents, made it clear that community effort should be directed toward very young children, those less than seven years old, if juvenile delinquency is to be reduced significantly...
...York City Youth Board, applying the table to about 250 boys in the first grade of two public schools in high delinquency areas in the Bronx. This experiment has been in process since 1953, and will be continued until the youths are about 17 years old...