Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them have never learned to drive a car, and their judgment of speed is limited or nonexistent. Baffled by U.S. slang, most of them need informal instruction before they get the hang of it. Not long ago, a U.S. instructor in a plane with a 21-year-old British youngster advised him to "give her the gun." Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them." Despite this unfamiliarity with the American language, some of the boys at Southern camps wind up with thick Southern accents, go hog-wild over orange...
...biology as a curious youngster, and it remained biology through high school, college, graduate work, as National Research Fellow, International Education Board Fellow at Brussels, Freiburg, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin--Dahlem, as assistant professor at Brown University in 1926-27, as assistant professor at Harvard in 1927, and as Master of Leverett House...
...Teheran. Iran was Persia then; and in the '80s Russia, which had steadily picked off Persia's northern provinces, conspicuously strengthened her position at Teheran by organizing under Tsarist officers the Persian Cossack Brigade, most effective military force in the country. This rough & tough outfit Reza, a youngster of 24, joined as a trooper...
...final, 7-5, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Few weeks ago, up-&-coming Miss Brough, displaying an astounding serve, trounced Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, one of the foremost challengers for the National Women's championship to be played at Forest Hills this week. Youngster Brough will compete at Forest Hills...
Last week, as Curtiss-Wright's flight show ended and the speakers departed, a few visitors stayed in the test yard to catch a glimpse of the youngster pilots who put on the show. But no workmen were there. They had gone back to their tools. The factory was clattering its symphony again as it does through the 24 hours of the day. Within a few months, 12,500 men will be working in the new plant and 500 of this year's fighters will be coming off the line every month: one of the reasons why Bill...