Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Resolutions were passed recommending the passage of the Edge-Kelly Bill, increasing the pay of post office employes, over the President's veto; opposing a modification of the Japanese exclusion clause of the Immigration Law; endorsing citizens' military training camps in so far as they are good for youth and not militaristic in intent: asking the abolition of convict labor: demanding Federal laws prohibiting the transportation of workers to communities where there are strikes; favoring the abolition of tax-exempt securities...
...they were drowned by the roar of the river of blood which separates your generation from mine. For you, the fall of Mussolini would represent a mere change of government. For us, it would represent the end of a dream, the dying out of a hope, the defeat of youth and the destruction of the very reason for our existence...
Yagna began to feel ill at ease. Old men croaked dubious warnings as to the ominous consequences of the mating of youth with age. But the wedding went...
Every new movement must be provided with a suitable vocabulary, and the school of rational living has invented two new gems. Those workers who will instruct the youth of the country in the rudiments of thought are to be known as "civic engineers", while the manipulators of youthful morals glory in the title of "religious engineers...
...which teaches people to think, and gives them something to think about, cannot help but be of some use. Bizarre ideas and titles, while they are good advertising, are always modified under working conditions. And if the new school meets its great test, that of controlling the energy of youth as expressed by 10,000 murders a year, who will gainsay its merit...