Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price, however, was only one factor in the astonishment the sale caused baseball addicts. Joe Cronin was considered a Washington fixture. A San Francisco youth who won the city tennis championship at 14, his baseball ability attracted the attention of a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924. He played for Pittsburgh in 1926 and 1927, went back to the minor leagues as an incorrigibly poor batter. A Senator scout rediscovered him at Kansas City in 1928. In two years his batting average jumped from .243 to .346. After the 1932 season, Owner Griffith made him manager of the team...
...doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth, or of the times, or just plain accident, is a matter of opinion. Without giving the "Critic" more cosmic importance than it would wish to have, this reviews is inclined to see in it a sign of the times
...your silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya Pravda recorded an evident conviction among Communist Youth that the tempo of their life blights marriage and makes proper child rearing well-nigh impossible. To this Godless Yaroslavsky made truculent retort: "It is entirely up to our Young Communists themselves! They must so organize their work and social activities that they will find time for bestowing upon each other that...
...seeking to de-Catholicize Mexico, the Revolutionary Government argues that the Church has represented vested property and black reaction. But merely to oust the priests is not enough. An important corollary is to implant Revolution in the mind of youth, and the Government has long been planning to accomplish this by taking over all schools and universities, making Socialistic education compulsory for all young Mexicans. Last week the Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted to make this possible by submitting the necessary constitutional change to the 29 States, two-thirds of which must ratify to make it effective. Meanwhile, far from...
...kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature...