Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a young man who said, "Damn! I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves. I'm not even a bus. I'm a tram...
There was a young man who said, "God, You must find it exceedingly odd That a tree, as a tree, Simply ceases to be When there's no one about in the Quad...
Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such...
...Aside from his military display for Dictator Somoza, Franklin Roosevelt let the week pass without making any further reply to Dictator Hitler's sarcastigation of last fortnight. But young Adolf A. Berle Jr., his European sharpshooter at the State Department, was permitted to sound off in Manhattan before the Academy of Political Science. He declared that the American nations meant what they said last winter at Lima: Dictators keep...
Members of the department who will leave next year emphasized the point made in the recent tenure report, that too little importance is given to teaching ability in making promotions and pointed out that as a result of this there was no incentive for the young instructor to do anything but publish. Three stated that the department was little more than a jumping-off point for greater heights and teaching was made, by the nature of the setup, an annoying accessory...