Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. officials at Potsdam thought that Stalin tired easily, looked far from well. Others at Potsdam said, with equal certainty, that Stalin looked alert, active, somewhat younger than his age. Moscow reports last week had him laughing heartily, talking animatedly, doodling enthusiastically between translations. Visiting U.S. Congressmen said he was in fine fettle. Russians quizzed on his health said only: "Stalin is a Georgian. Georgians live forever...
...league colleges will be stilled. The Princeton Bulletin, a miniature thrice-weekly sheet prepared by a secretary in the Dean's Office, has replaced the daily Princetonian. Yale's publicity office issues, with student assistance, a News Digest each week. The Harvard CRIMSON, realizing that rapid turnover and a younger student body discourages a mature and consistent editorial policy, publishes, still independently, the voice-less Service News each week. Dartmouth's position is similar to Harvard's, though the Log, successor to the Indian, is slanted more Navy-wise...
What we ask is that the President be backed in his request to continue the draft of younger men in order that we may get the same consideration that our Congress is so willing to give to those who have not yet seen service, or have not yet seen action. Policing is a nasty job, but so was Iwo Jima. Don't make us do both...
Ilka Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...
...Chicago Daily News, slowly building a powerhouse foreign staff (Raymond Swing, later Negley Farson, John Gunther), was getting more interested in Europe. Paul pulled his mop-haired, earnest younger brother Edgar out of the Latin Quarter, where Edgar was composing critical essays on French dramatists, sent him off to the front as a correspondent. Edgar occasionally annoyed the home office by leading a battle story with an apt piece of Latin verse, but he did increasingly well...