Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Insomuch as these were only two unofficial delegates from the 3000 odd undergraduates of Harvard at this convention, it might seem that the Harvard student's mind turns rather towards lighter subjects during vacation. But anyone who heard Kirby Page speak on the problems facing the youth of today would not feel that their "political emotions" were all in vain. The facts of overproduction, un-equal distribution of wealth, class enmity, unemployment, and disarmament, are not fully realized by college students. A statement such as Kirby Page made, that if some agreement concerning reparations is not reached within the year...
...scowling, didactic (he once taught school), possessed of a mellow but unexciting voice, identified with no conspicuous cause or movement, Senator Laval was also too young to be noticeable in France in January 1931. He was only 47 and France likes its Premiers to be over 60. The extreme youth of Pierre Laval was made glaring by the fact that France had just dispensed with a Premier whom many considered "much too young," brilliant André Tardieu, 54, whose Cabinet was brought down by the Oustric scandal (TIME...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury admitted authorship of a "highly romantic" novel in his youth. Said he: "Nothing would induce me to reveal the name of that dreadful book [written under a pseudonym]. I had forgotten all about it until Hugh Walpole mentioned it before a meeting the other night...
...delegate will probably do little good to the conference for it is impossible for him to possess the facts which might make him effective. But he will learn the difficulties with which foreign negotiations are fraught and he will, if appointed, lend concrete proof to the fact that American youth is, at least, interested in the peace of the world...
...paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed youth who ran him down through no fault of his. To Driver Contasino, who had called daily to inquire of his condition, Statesman Churchill autographed and presented his latest work, The Unknown...