Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...
...nevertheless, the opinion of the college youth held by Bill Stonaker, veteran engineer on the Junction branch of the Pennsylvania railroad which hauls all of the boys to Princeton who do not walk, has taken a sudden jump for the better in the past few years...
Loud, prolonged hawking showed that not more than 2,500 francs ($100) could be realized for a wench, however buxom, and not over 3,750 francs ($150) was bid for any youth, however strong. Shamed were more than two score of young women for whom the auctioneer could not raise a single bid. Crestfallen and sullen were a score of youths...
...stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this to corrupt the mind of youth...
...down a narrative of embryonic genius, was faced with a dilemma. To explicate the later prowess of the boy she writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps 25 years after this. To supply...