Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement made when the war was still in the minds of every man and woman continue to create bitterness among peoples who have no real quarrel with each other? The jealousy and distrust with which defaulting nations are coming to regard the United States is most unfortunate. To the youth of America is seems unfair that one of the latent causes of future wars is nothing more than a lack of agreement between nations as to the settlement of the "fruits" of the last. The college student of today is conscious of the World War only as on historical paradox...
...game with Andover last Saturday the captain of the schoolboys asked for a courtesy runner. Frank surveyed the occupants of the Andover dugout in an attempt to decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
Compared to the simple audacity and youth of rugby, the ponderousness of American football as played and presented today reminds me of a weight)' clash between the Boards of Directors of General Motors and U. S. Steel. There they think deeply of mighty matters of sales impact, where the next onslaught should be directed. Their legal advisor-coaches sum up the opportunities and dangers, decide to put the vice-president-in-charge-of-forward-passes on the Board for some critical moments. One of the Directors feels faint from having been at it for too long. He is ordered...
...trim, black-haired youth waited in line two days to register for a general commerce course in Notre Dame University. By the time he reached the registrar's desk a friend had persuaded him to switch to an architectural course. After one year at Notre Dame, he went to Catholic University in Washington, D. C. from which he graduated in 1929. During the next five years he taught as part-time instructor at Catholic University, worked in architects' offices in Washington and Manhattan, once won a Beaux Arts prize but was too hard up to go to Paris...
...build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford for her first flight, turned down cinema contracts...