Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...
...Puller. Chesty is Virginia-born. (In Saluda, Va., his wife and four-year-old daughter are waiting out the war.) He was a youngster of 19 when he shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...
...police can't watch over you always. So, until we meet, Death." The Hearst Herald-American had directed fire at the universities by calling Chicago a city where "rich universities ... get pound dogs for nothing (at the rate of 10,000 a year), while a youngster seeking a pet must shell out $8.40." After about a week of this, the City Council called a public hearing on a measure to forbid giving more dogs to laboratories...
Last week Stanley was scheduled to be inducted into the Navy. But Navymen, after seeing his demonstration, asked for his deferment and commissioned the youngster to start working on a four-passenger Hillercopter...
Sirs: The competency of its construction, its style and technique-all, it seemed to me, was precision stuff. It exemplified just what I think George Ade meant when, years ago, he slipped a bit of seasoned advice to an aspiring youngster: "If it is your intention to push your way through life with a pencil you must first forget your college English and learn how not to write like Lord Macaulay." ARNOLD GERSTELL Philadelphia...