Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only one of the 74 girls was mentally deficient. Many were "irresponsible and precocious children who had been running wild." One or two had been assaulted, some of the younger girls "had been the victims of incest," but most of them had entered into sexual relations willingly...
...deeply touched by the American offer to look after British children. . . . We have had three extremely generous offers of homes and education for our own younger children, for the period of the war. If we had been still living in London I think I should have accepted, knowing that everything would be done to make them happy; but the strain of separation on children is great, and what they may lose in formal education they will gain in the other kind of education that will come through living in a community where, at last, all must take their share...
Died. Charles J. Duveen, 68, antique furniture connoisseur; younger brother of the late Lord Duveen (Duveen Brothers), with whom he was in business before establishing the U. S. firm, Charles of London; in Yonkers...
Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
Determined to get their $20 worth, the students labored hard and soberly. Sole disrupting note to younger bankers was having to watch still younger Chapel Hill bucks squiring their coeds toward the nearby hills for afternoon strolls...