Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world capital in the northwest corner of Mexico . . . somewhere in the neighborhood of the famous Mexican towns of Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Mexicali (Mexicali Rose, I Love You), and Ensenada? . . . [This] would be close to Hollywood, through whose portals pass the most beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads. The younger and handsomer of the UNO male secretaries could spend alternate weekends in Hollywood and Mexico, entertaining and being entertained...
entire Louisville group average slightly younger than TIME subscribers, with smaller incomes (armed forces pay) and more education (younger people these days are more educated than older people). Most (68%) of the group of civilians and veterans were males in the salaried minor executive class, and a majority (69%) were married. Interestingly enough, more than a third were former TIME subscribers. They gave two main reasons for choosing to buy their copies of TIME at a newsstand: 1) it was more convenient and 2) they were not at present permanently located...
Certain that control will remain in the family (through the voting stock), the Fords are already laying plans to fit the younger brothers into the dynastic pattern. Benson Ford, now 26, has just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with...
...talk about literature, music, and politics, that characterized the old University, in the wartime bull sessions showed that American students just weren't thinking about those things. It wasn't their fault, really. They were younger than peacetime undergraduates; the faculty, especially that part of it which was closest to the students and which gave stimulation to so many of them, suffered shattering losses. The root of the problem, however, can be found in the instability and acceleration that began with the drafting of 18-year-olds...
Though Freshmen were entering the College at 16 and 17 and even younger, more significant to the explanation of the Intellectual vegetation was the collapse of the undergraduate organizations that in peacetime furnished the opportunities for intellectual, as well as social, association...