Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
This complete change of policy is now being put into effect in the land of Lenin, and it is high time that educators here in America should mark the fact well and be governed in judgment accordingly. The youth of our nation face great difficulties, today, and college men in particular are hard put to know how they can use their higher education to proper advantage. But in this perplexity, one thing is cortain. Any policy which tends to make the years of a man's college life easier and more pampered, is a policy, which can only make...
Precisely what this meant no German perhaps knew, but millions thought they did. Somehow by a process of conscripting German youth for a year into the ranks of Labormen, as France conscripts its youths for service in the army, Adolf Hitler has a notion that he will produce his kind of Socialism, and in addition ideal human material for soldiers. On the front...
Belief No. 1: the blood of elderly people, who are prone to develop cancer, is more alkaline than the blood of cancer-resisting youth. Belief No. 2: as a cancer fades under ministrations of radium or x-rays, the elderly patient's blood decreases in alkalinity, gains in acidity. Many a researcher has, without any definite success, attempted to attack cancer by injecting acids into the blood to reduce its alkalinity. Dr. von Bremer claimed complete success for this method as a means of killing off his "cancer germs...
Born in 1878 when the new Japan was in its infancy, Seiji Noma, whose father had been of the samurai, was rooted in the feudal past. His family was poor but proud. At school he was an idle, mischief-making but lusty youth, excelling in oratory and fencing. Despite early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls...