Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vindicating his father, and to be Tammany's Leader. Four years ago he missed nosing out Curry for Leadership by only if votes. Since then he has been visiting other district leaders, forming alliances. So far, Tammany has always come back after a municipal purging. Ahearn's youth and vitality may be sorely needed for the comeback. Kiss. Straw votes gathered by the Literary Digest, Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle and RKO theatres indicated last fortnight that LaGuardia was leading O'Brien by a wide margin. When McKee entered the race, the nucleus of his support was Democratic...
...condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked opponent!" "I, together with all my followers, de-cline." he cried, "to conquer the people of a strange nation-who would not love us anyway. . . . "German youth is marching . . . not to demonstrate against France, but to evince that political determination . . . necessary for throwing down Communism!" Significance. From a domestic standpoint President von Hindenburg's dissolution of the Diets of all the German States was of immense importance, for the Government coolly indicated that no elections for new Diets...
...best Sir Josiah could say of U. S. prospects was that "the United States may succeed, in spite of herself, because of her youth and vigor...
...exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom she had slaved away her youth so that he could go to medical school, then fill his father's shoes as local doctor. When Anson turned up on schedule. Anna even had a wife picked out for him. Not unnaturally, Anson resented having his sister run his life, felt uncomfortably bound by his debt...
...monistic universe, but as a unique being, intelligent and responsible, able to discover right ways with his reason and able to follow them with his will. It is equally opposed to idealistic and materialistic unity. It may be pessimistic, in reflecting that man is prone to evil from his youth, but it is the opposite of fatalism. It may be guardedly optimistic, in finding that the intellectually discovered key to the good life is easily used by the will, but it is equally the opposite of that Rousseauian naturalistic optimism, that Alice-in-Wonderland adventure of the self which finds...