Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side...
Oswald Garrison Villard, the second speaker, emphasised the horrors of the battlefield and declared that he was encouraged to see the youth of today protesting and organizing against war. Overseas he pointed to the vigorous action of Great Britain at Geneva, and the spectacle of fifty nations employing sanctions against an aggressor nation. Mr. Villard also found encouraging the fact of Great Britain's declaring herself for a readjustment, even of her own territories, in order to forward peace. Holding that "you can't advance righteousness by mass murder", the former editor of the Nation closed with an earnest plea...
...years graduates have adopted the attitude that Harvard belongs only to those favored men who received their degrees back in the halcyon days of Republicanism, prosperity, and prohibition. They forget in their selfish possessiveness that the college exists for the training of youth and not for the sole purpose of providing a sacred shrine whose keys are possessed by representatives of a past generation...
...mortally hates & fears the New Deal's spending policies, had fallen releases by Pressagent Amick describing three camps for girls established in Kansas with some of the 50,000,000 Work Relief dollars set aside by President Roosevelt "to do something for the nation's unemployed Youth" (TIME, July 8). Largely by quotation, Pundit Kent drew the following picture of National Youth Administration activities...
...student Herald is a weekly paper published by the Greater Boston Student Committee for peace and Freedom and is edited by students of Handarf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radcliffe Simmons Community Church, and Youth Group...