Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers, wondering why the Communists picked old Bolshevist Minor instead of a younger man, guessed that the Party, busy with internal struggles, wanted another home-grown front...
...strong, and most of the Army was ready to fight for independence. General Dusan Simovitch, Chief of the Air Force, was one of these. But War Minister Pesitch was old and frightened; he would not give the order. On whether the Army obeyed its leaders, or revolted under its younger officers, depended the fate of the last and hardest neutral nut that Hitler has tried to crack with his pincers...
Four special half year courses will be dropped by the English Department in '41-'42. They were in advanced fields and were handled by younger men, who will not be dismissed but who will help the older professors in the courses to be retained. Some new courses may be added...
...many younger men will be leaving is not known for sure, except that one tutor is definitely going. One instructor will be absent on leave, and three others have been awarded Guggenheims, slang for a fund to finance projects away from the University which could not otherwise be undertaken for financial reasons. Tutorial work will not be greatly affected, since only five more men will be assigned to each tutor, and none of the older pro- fessors will be pressed into service. Sections will remain the same in size and number, and salaries will...
Impresario of the Forum of the Air is wispy, 37-year-old Theodore Granik, who looks like a younger version of Léon Blum. A lawyer by profession, Granik used to be assistant director of Manhattan's WGBS (now WINS), where he did everything from conducting Biblical readings to reporting prize fights. One of the ideas he cooked up for WGBS was a program known as Law for the Layman. When the station was sold in 1928, he transferred his show to WOR, decided to transform it into a forum after listening to Congressman Celler of New York...