Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. A. C. Irvine, 22, youngest member of the Mt. Everest expedition (see Page...
Died. Otto Cyffka, 24, "World War's youngest soldier," of shattered nerves; in Rosenheim, Bavaria. He enlisted at 14, at the outbreak of the War. Later he was employed in a power plant, was buried in a landslide with five other workers, he being the only survivor...
Went the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary and Governor General of South Africa with his wife, Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria's youngest son, the Duke of Albany, to the Transvaal for some hunting...
...publishers to consult the author concerning the proofs and his reply was a radiogram sent from 4, 400 miles from New York. It was transmitted by Mr. Mathison himself, who was at the time radio operator on a steamer in the Pacific. Mr. Mathison is perhaps the youngest possessor of a license coveted by professional radio operators--that of an Extra First-class American Rario Operator. Less than fifty of these licenses have been granted up to the present time, and it is the highest certificate of radio skill issued in the world...
...trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights and woven them together into a fairy story that cannot fall to delight and enchant the youngest and the oldest members of the audience...