Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public schools are getting themselves industriously, if not successfully, to fit youth to social existence and to stereotype reactions. To instill a certain tolerance and awareness of individuals, rather than of groups, might very well be considered an honorable goal of the University. Let it be granted that the average college student is lamentably ignorant of political problems in their detailed aspect, but most certainly he has heard of them if he reads only the newspapers. There are plenty of persons who know far too much about their immediate difficulties and are busily enlisting the support of their neighbors...
...plush rope, edged down a long corridor, edged past the receiving line, edged on into the Grand Ballroom for dinner. After dinner Mrs. Morrow made a little speech about the initials Y. W. C. A., thought of all the nice things she could which began with Y (Youth), with W (Wisdom), C (Charity) and A (Alertness). To close the program, 500 Young Women trooped in, presented a pageant of Y. W. C. A. activities...
...buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...
...head to hear whence the music comes. A third girl turns haughtily as if to resist the spell. Most mature is the woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly, sated figure to whom spiritual beauty has suddenly been revealed. A youth lifts his hand as if he were trying to catch the music. A man, holding a bird, motions it to be quiet while he listens...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...