Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present time Axt seems convinced that the only hope for a memorial other than the plaque-scholarship duo rests with the arousing of sufficient informed support within the body of younger Alumni, especially veterans of the recent war, to sell the committee a new version of the General Will...
...that point, chronic stomach trouble - that was the story, and it was a likely story - forced him to return to Russia. A tall, slouching man with a pale face, Panyushkin covers his Communist inflexibility with a manner that, compared to Novikov's, is affable and friendly. Like most younger Russian diplomats, his English is poor and he frequently submits to interpretation. He is a member of the revision committee of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, a body of highly trusted party members headed by Stalin himself...
...boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book they could find in the town (a well-thumbed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and sometimes played cards with them in the evening. Chapp took a shine to blonde Wally, who was smart, and a year younger than he was. She called him Roberto...
During the war years, Freshmen were, for the most part, lumped with upperclassmen in the Houses, and seemed to manage their social affairs under liberal House rules with no evidence of moral deterioration. They were subject to the peculiarly disruptive influences of war-time at an average age even younger than that of the present Yardling crop. If age and experience are any criteria, '51 is at least as qualified for independence as "duration" Freshmen...
Rape & Non-Fiction. In his younger days, Huntington ranged all over the world-to the Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...