Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense; and I think if I were asked which of his characteristics I valued the most, it would be this. There were some of Mr. Kittredge's ideas about graduate education with which it was possible to disagree, and I know I am not the only one of his younger colleagues who felt that he put more emphasis on facts for their won sake than we thought necessary or wise for a student of literature. But if one went to him with a new idea or a new interpretation, he did not dismiss it, even though it might...
...make easier the transfer from home cooking and then in the spring again bettering the menus to meet the expected undergraduate protests about board--these are but a few of the additions Mr. Morse has made to Harvard folklore. The quarter of the book which deals with the younger Morse's however, will interest only the persons concerned...
...highly-touted Marine team proved inadequate to meet the vigorous onslaught of the younger, more practiced Harvards and dropped the contest 2 to 1. A gallery of about 30 marines and sailors from H.M.S. "Newcastle" watched the fray...
...Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...Younger brother Stan was Bellamy's chief target, especially after a little girl named Alice discovered that she was not an "own" child but an adopted orphan. :' 'Why, it might happen to anybody,' Stan said. 'How could a person tell?' It was at that moment when the idea came to me. . . . 'You couldn't tell,' I said, 'nobody could. . . . Stan, I hadn't intended to tell you this, but . . . you're not really my brother at all-you're an orphan...