Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biologically speaking, Venus appears much younger than Earth, then Mars appears much older. It is smaller and colder than Earth, has lost most of its atmosphere and water. But a thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which...
Bertrand Russell dislikes football, titles, and bridge, but is fond of hiking, Chinese people, detective stories, Harvard, and America's younger generation...
...Britains. Winston Churchill represents the elite of Britain's past, the humble of her present. He is descended from a long line of aristocratic leaders, but he is the son of a younger son. Descendant of the first Duke of Marlborough, who commanded at Blenheim and Mal-plaquet, grandson of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, but also grandson of a New York City newspaperman, he sums up two Britains, both of which are in the present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter...
Died. Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, who with two younger friends (69 and 71) recently took title to the Communist Daily Worker (TIME, Aug. 12) to preserve it "as a medium of free expression in the interest of the working people of America"; in Little Compton, R. I. Comrade Earl Browder called her: "an outstanding example of the best American character...
...relief. The following year he joined the Okie parade to California, where he joined a hunger strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan to make some money. We figured we could sing as good as some of those people on the radio, so we started singin' on street corners. We did purty good. Then we got the idea of singin' at banquets, like...