Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taste for learning and little ability to acquire it. Seventy-five per cent of them cannot speak the English language correctly, while graduate students are "boys whose parents have enough money to keep them in college until the professors are tired of looking at them." Manicured and powdered, the youth of modern college life stirs Dr. Finley more than any revolution he may chance upon during his career in Mexico City. Only the girls are safe, for in each "the heart of a mother is not far beneath the surface." The doctor pins his only hope to their skirts...
...POOR NUT-A college youth who had more brains than social brilliance, but made up for the latter with a fleet pair of legs...
...know", he continued, "I think that it is a terrific thing, this 'growing up'. That questioning period with its first serious disturbing thoughts, catching youth at the most impressionable time of life and at a time when so many boys come under the confining, unsympathetic supervision of the English 'public schools' or our own more or less corresponding private institutions...
...college life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...schools, both rural and urban, of this proud and prosperous nation, from 50 to 98% of the children have defective teeth?health defects which are actually or potentially dangerous and detrimental to health, normal development, and to sound education. The correction of the dental defects of the youth of America is the largest problem in the entire range of correction of remediable physical health handicaps...