Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years -a 43% increase since 1900-the remaining life expectancy of those who have already reached 70 has increased but little in the same period-from 9.3 to 11.2 years. This is because most of the life-saving achievements in medicine and public health have been concentrated in the younger age brackets, from the first few weeks of life through adolescence. The middle-aged have benefited mainly from the decline in deaths from tuberculosis and pneumonia...
These encounters gave evidence of a great reservoir of good feeling towards America and Americans existing among the younger generation. What direct contacts they had made in missions, schools, and hospitals convinced them that Americans were more informal and easier to converse with than the British, possessing none of the latter's attitude of condescension towards African culture. What they had heard through rumor, newspaper, radio, and the movies convinced them that the U.S. was a place of fabulous wealth, great opportunity, leisure, and few conflicts...
...part tried to explore the vital issues facing students in Nigeria--and, in a broader sense, the younger generation in a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped country. These issues are different from those in a highly developed area. For in Nigeria the harsh fact of life is the lack of trained African personnel in almost every field--agriculture, commerce, administration, and health. Education must meet this need, but funds to finance it can seldom come from the students or their parents, in a land where per capita income hovers around $60 a year. They must come instead from the government...
...university, and sparked by Glenn J. Christensen, who is now Dean of Arts and Sciences, the faculty committee looked into all aspects of the Arts program and has so far succeeded in raising freshman enrollment 300 per cent, and preventing the exodus of several of the most promising younger members of the faculty...
...uses he made of the money. Mother Abby Aldrich, less stern of conscience, balanced obligation with games, art and music. When she heard that Columbia University's new progressive Lincoln School mixed students from townhouse and tenement and put a premium on curiosity, she enrolled Nelson and his younger brothers...