Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introducing the Thad Jones waltz "A Child Is Born," Batiste played into the guts of the opened grand piano and used the Steinway's vast sounding board as a natural amplifier, thus creating all sorts of lingering overtones. This experimental technique might have been expected more of the younger Byron than of Batiste, the elder statesman, but Batiste showed that he is more than a traditionalist throughout the concert...
Given that few smokers develop the habit in college, the nationwide trend of increased smoking should be exhibited at Harvard by a higher proportion of younger smokers. The fact that the opposite is true at Harvard--that smoking prevalence is higher among older students (i.e. juniors and seniors)--suggests that Harvard may not follow the smoking trends of the rest of the nation...
...When they have so many of their population of smokers dying off, they need to find a replacement population. So since most of the smoking population begins smoking in the 1214 age range, it would make sense for them to target younger people," said Pierce-Laven...
...fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned in the newspaper, laments that he ought to change his name to something that "skews a little younger," like Zeus) and with his amusingly unhinged patients (one fellow believes his feet aren't finished; another thinks he's addicted to Robitussin...
...think that professors of this age should open up slots to younger people, said Striedter, also professor of comparative langagues and literature...