Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enrollment of the youngest people has not been going up," Bruno said. Rather, she said, the number of people over 22 years old enrolled in colleges has increased by 33 per cent since...
...three, said police, are "armed and dangerous" and should be arrested "on probable cause." At week's end the youngest of the three, Richard Schoenfeld, turned himself in to authorities in Oakland. But the other two men were still missing. Also missing was a clear motive for the bizarre crime that prompted the police sweep-the kidnaping two weeks ago of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver from the sunbaked town of Chowchilla...
...knock on the front door, so he started around the house. On the side of the house in the driveway was an old Studebaker up on blocks, no wheels, two doors missing. Inside at the wheel was the father, going "vroom, vroom," beside him the mother and the youngest child, in the back seat the other four kids. Out for an afternoon drive...
Until last year the youngest brigadier in the Continental Army was a forger of ship anchors in Coventry, Rhode Island. He has little formal education but used to study Euclid and military history beside his forge at night. Though raised a Quaker, Greene helped form a militia troop to resist British tyranny. When other members of his troop thought he should be disqualified from command because of a game leg, Greene characteristically offered to serve as a private. But his talent as a leader, especially in acquiring and organizing supplies, was quickly noticed. He progressed from private to general within...
...what he wants but that his wants are conceived on a very grand scale. They have served to make him one of the richest manufacturers in England and an exemplar of the modern type of merchant. Yet he was born to relative poverty 46 years ago, the 13th and youngest child of a potter in Staffordshire. His schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small...