Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred to more rapid progress. They ripen more quickly. It is as though the elderly apple were "jealous of youth, and would destroy...
...college instruction, has, despite all pragmatic objections a purely intrinsic value. It is path or the lesson of tolerance and the ideas of his own generation which the college graduate has absorbed that can have any social effect. This is the idea of Kotsching when he speaks of youth "yearning after a now conception of the world, a Weltanshauung which will give a new point of departure for the establishment of a new order...
...entitled "Hollywood Comes to Napoleon's Aid". So lavish are the decoration and the crowds in Grauman's Chinese that ordinary theatre-goers might pass this picture by. Last week it was called sharply to public attention by 20-year-old Sherman Miller, editor & publisher of California Youth. On a white charger Napoleon rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse's hoofs. Behind him is his staff, impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over...
Night after night in the Chi Psi fraternity house at Middlebury College, Vermont, a lank, black-haired youth used to sit at the piano, pounding out the lusty lament about the brave engineer's "farewell trip to the Promised Land." Since the piano-thumper's name was Jones, he was nicknamed "Casey." His first initials, C. S. for Charles Sherman, perpetuated the nickname from those days, 20 years ago, until he became an aviator. Then it stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period...
Hence there appeared on the Harvard campus in March, 1923, a sawed-off youth wearing a monocle, top hat, morning coat, and sponge-bag trousers. He was temporarily put up at the Harvard Union in a bed in which President Roosevelt once had slept. Later he stopped for a time at the Phoenix Club. Specialists in the Prince's Harvard career say that he brushed aside the matter of entrance requirements by describing to President Lowell, in a personal interview, how his papers had been destroyed when the Rods burned the Winter Palace. Mike was enrolled as a student...