Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike restless Leonardo da Vinci, who died a lonely old man far from his native Italy in France, Bellini stuck close to home all his 86 years, was finally buried in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, which as a young man he had helped to decorate. His only recorded complaint against the city that made him wealthy and world famous: its magistrates' insistence that he continue to pay his union dues to the local painters' guild...
Gentler and more elegant were the satires of such famed Victorian humorists as George du Maurier and Sir John Tenniel. Their Punch drawings of crinolined damsels and young men in cutaways had quietly chided a more prosperous and conservative...
...doctors have not been able to tell, except by waiting for years, whether treatments for cancer were successful. But young (34) Dr. Philip M. West, senior research associate at the medical school of the University of California at Los Angeles, thinks he has found a way to show quickly whether the patient or the cancer is getting the upper hand...
...spare time, young Cardus imitated the austere wit of the Guardian's reviews of the arts, hoping to write for it himself. In 1917, after four years of batting and bowling as assistant cricket coach at Shrewsbury School, Cardus got his wish. The Guardian's Editor C. P. Scott hired him as a reporter, and Cardus stayed on the paper for 22 years...
Next step is to watch the weather and its effect on the young hoppers. The migratory species are semidesert insects that thrive best under dry conditions; a cold rain or a late frost can wipe them out. So can their natural enemies (other insects, birds, etc.)-which the Government's experts keep track...