Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professors have always to conform and avoid unpopular views whether in class or out what kind of men will they be? And where will our young men and women go to hear and weigh new ideas, to consider both sides and acquire balance and integrity...
Devil In the Flesh. A tender, penetrating French view of young love in wartime (TIME, March...
...succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian suitor (Pedro Armendariz), her love for her young geologist partner (Robert Preston), and her new-found infatuation for Oilman Gough...
Poverty & Progress. All this grew from a single store which 27-year-old James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...moviegoers. The best customers are 1) moderate-income families who bring the children to save on babysitting, 2) the aged and physically handicapped and 3) farmers and factory workers ducking the ritual of dressing up to go to a movie in town. The drive-ins are also popular with young neckers, but exhibitors deny that their places are, in Variety's phrase, "passion pits with pix." Their righteous defense: nothing happens that doesn't go on in a balcony...