Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, there are a number of factors which make it necessary to discount the results of this poll as an indicator for the national elections. Students at Harvard are on the whole of the conservative monied class; there may be some truth in the popular superstition that youth is naturally conservative, judging from the poll results. Massachusetts is, moreover, concededly Republican this year. With the exception of the Law School, CRIMSON polls did not forecast the national results accurately...
...schedule for the Fall. Cambridge puts on a cloak of the Mediaeval for rainy weather, especially on drenching evenings, and as the Vagabond trudged along, drawing himself bodily farther into the innermost warmth of his copious waterproof, he could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt of the Vagabond's, now glistening white, grey, and silver in the flickering...
Example of Author Anderson's present style: "Red Oliver had to think. He thought he had to think. He wanted to think-thought he wanted to think. In youth there is a kind of hunger...
...feature to survive the shakeup was the clock design at the top of the editorial page on the grounds that "it indicates the importance of the page and is a symbol of its significance," it has been there for 130 years, it commemorates the paper's "passing from youth to maturity...
...even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than his father had been. Elected in spite of a popular majority against him, he owed his office to a close vote...