Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated...
...believe," a young London mother told a meeting of 3,600 other British mothers last week, "that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled priggish. In consequence, people are sometimes afraid to show disapproval of what they know to be wrong...
...from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...
Hams & Cigars. John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vt., a bustling town of 15,000 whose citizens had no particular notion that young John would ever amount to so much. To them he was just the painfully bashful Dewey boy who delivered papers after school. His father, the proprietor of a grocery store ("Hams & cigars: smoked and unsmoked"), was a courtly man with a flowing beard, who quoted Milton and Robert Burns, and told of bullets whistling through his hair during the Civil War ("I always thought that that was how he got bald," says Dewey...
...spite of his shyness, young John did well at school, and at 15 was ready to enter the University of Vermont. There he fell in love with learning, borrowed $500 from an aunt and set off for the six-year-old Johns Hopkins University for more study. "Don't be so bookish," Hopkins President Daniel C. Gilman warned him; "get out and see more people." But John stuck close to his books; he had made up his mind to become a professional philosopher...