Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied with a pupil of a pupil of Liszt, made their rounds with brief case under arm, eked out a living playing the organ in church. Women teachers still outnumber men, io-to-1, although men get thrice as many pupils. A good teacher today tends to be younger, better-trained than those of the previous generation. She gives about 20 lessons a week, makes about $40 from them, has not yet given up hope of a concert career...
...Cardinals, U. S. sportswriters yipped with glee. A bumptious bumpkin, he was vague about his name (sometimes it was Jerome Her man Dean, sometimes Jay Hanna Dean) and his birthplace (either Texas or Oklahoma). But he was crystal clear about the fact that "Me'n' Paul" (his younger brother who joined the Cardinals two years later) were the two best pitchers south of the North Pole. In 1934 he boasted that "Me'n' Paul" together would win 45 games for the Cardinals (they...
...policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...
...Gilboy's reasons for believing there is a permanent relief problem are four. First, "the chance of reemploy-men for those on the relief rolls who are 40 years of age or older are small unless the preference in private industry for hiring younger men changes." Second, "there appears to be a distinct prejudice against hiring workers who have been on relief. This prejudice may be attributed to some extent to the idea, which still purists, that there is something wrong with anyone who ap- plies for relief. But it is partly due to the belief that work relief affects...
...referring to her younger sons, John '38 and Franklin D. Jr. '37 who are reputed to have been put through Harvard by one of the Square's best-known tutors in whose office hangs an autographed picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt...