Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday deadline he slipped across the border into Austria. Unable to stomach a Communist-ruled clergy, he was headed back for Cleveland. Last week in Vienna, 48-year-old Father Koczan recalled the scene in the Red headquarters. He said: "I left without committing myself. If I were younger and healthier, I'd have resisted right there. But I would never have survived...
...pair have sketched their objections to the assessment in the latest New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics, fears that doctors, particularly younger ones, who don't pay the assessment may lose their AMA membership and thus have trouble getting hospital positions...
...small, neat, new synagogue. On the walls hung the white and blue banner of Israel; the traditional nine candles stood against a background of gold-embroidered drapery. When the candles were lighted, old men in black skull caps joyfully started to chant the ancient Hanukkah hymn. The younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed: "Now I can die. Now I'll have a funeral following the religion of my forefathers...
...younger, stormier days, he could wither a strong man with his swearing. "He swore so much," recalls one student, "he had to hyphenate his words to get them all in." Rare was the Schmidt boy who was not roundly berated, fired and rehired every few days...
...World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...