Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus far the audience sees only Lindbergh Number One, played by M. Armand Chatraine, a youth who was thought by all his friends to resemble the Colonel at the time of Lindbergh's actual landing in France (TIME...
...Most teachers used methods which they themselves considered antiquated, and taught subjects which they would have admitted not one in a hundred of their pupils would ever need to know. Boys and girls bursting with vitality and the exuberance of youth were cramped for hours into set positions, while by a sort of water-cure process knowledge was pumped into them from books duller than a doctor's dissertation in philosophy...
...Chicago voted with remarkably little violence. Forty detective squads cruised the town. Late in election evening, a youth with an aged roadster parked in front of the University Club and made his muffler backfire with murderous reports. Police strolled toward the sound. The youth & friends drove away...
...fortitude", said the husband tenderly embrasing her, and ignoring the trenchant sobs of his children, which now rend the air with renewed vigor. "Suffer we must for the cause of education, so long as Imbecilic editors control its destinies. Soon will come a change, and the latent craving of youth for knowledge will once more be aroused in spite of those who would stifle this yearning forever...
Harvard men need no broad undergraduate intercourse "to supplement" or "even correct the influence by teachers of the university," The fallacy of this thought is in the same category as that of the thorough sinners who make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows...