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Word: youngsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch Hollow, he was soon known as an intellectual. Oldtimers remember him as a plump youngster (from a heavy appetite for beefsteak and cake), with a large, serious head thrust inquiringly forward, a stiff-legged, determined walk, a penchant for burying his nose in a book. In baseball games he was always the scorekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth and Trouble | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Edward Sinclair was 61 years old; his son Norman was a youngster of 35. Aaron Stone and Richard Vivian had passed 55. Tough, gnarled Newfies all, they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Newfies' Ride | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...such youngster is beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Michael & The Angell | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

When he started working here as a youngster back in 1898 in Roach Hall, at that time a mineralogy building, he didn't expect to stay around long, but lie's been here 44 years now and he's still as pompous as Snowball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Years as College Janitor, Herbert Knew Lowell, Eliot | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...year-old, six-foot-three-inch youngster who had been writing "mood music" in Hollywood slipped across the U.S.-Canadian border. To a Canadian colonel he said: "I am tired of seeing these other fellers push you guys around," forthwith enlisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Soldier Poet in New Guinea | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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