Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pappas group, comprised of only men, most of whom were in their thirties or older and wore sportscoats and ties, stood apart from the younger, anti-Gallo picketers, except for occasional debates, ermed "reasonably polite and peaceable" by members of both sides...
Reginald H. Phelps, long-standing direction of University Extension, notes that the proportion of younger to older students has been increasing steadily over the last seven or eight years. Perhaps a growing awareness of the program as an accessible channel for complementary study exposes its potential as an alternative vehicle to formal accreditation for those unable to continue in college for financial or other reasons...
...have no established access to such revitalizing facilities as sports, drams and music groups, clubs or scholarship funds, not to mentions, until now, a voice in The Crimson, Certainly the small--though growing--proportion of seriously continuing students would hardly deplete Harvard's physical and financial endowment. with many younger people breaking the traditional four year syndromes is embark on necessary remunerative work during their "college years," the option to participate fully in all aspect of University life, however irregularly, is as potentially important to present undergraduates in the College as to the graying heads grinding through the Extension program...
...origin, religious preference, or age, a channel of learning that does not depend on academic or economic performance or on familiar ties. Many of us pursuing later dreams need just as much encouragement and new experience as our juniors, and are often more open to new perspectives from unrelated younger friends than from our own recently-sprung progeny...
Mother is joined by the group that forms the heart of Cher's fan club-girls who are sub-teen and even younger. For them she is, in the current phrase, "jive." Cher proves that at least one American dream lives: she gives evidence that show biz can still reach out among the adolescent millions and-with a little luck and a lot of hype-transform a mildly talented young woman into a hot, multimillion-dollar property. And that the chosen one gets to have inch-long fingernails for a trademark, if she wants...