Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left Bank students the law was a godsend. Three hundred of them set up shop in vacant classrooms, answered as many as 50 calls a day, mostly from addled landlords. Said one young philosophy major: "We get 125 francs an hour. At first we were slow, but now we can do a whole house in an hour and a half. Anyhow, it beats baby-sitting...
...that first Christmas Eve, young Rector Clingman, 38, liked what he saw. There were 166 people in the little church -half of them children. "The children intrigued me," he said afterward. "They were underprivileged really . . . because of the estates they lived on, they had no playgrounds and little contact with other children...
...first class met in a borrowed room of the Madison Female Academy: 17 young men, and a mathematics professor recruited all the way from Princeton...
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits. It was considered "morally wrong" for students to spend much time over a chessboard, and some young wastrels had been known to patronize saloons, gaming houses and even the theater...
...quiet section of Brooklyn known as Greenpoint, a young housewife named Mrs. Florence Santevecchi last week gave birth, with considerable help, to premature twins. The Manhattan press got its tongue twisted trying to cover the news...