Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later...
...student mob savagely assaults the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nanking Government. Thereupon some one rises to point out the contrast with the attitude of the American student to anything more serious than a freshman hazing. The indifference of our college youth to movements and causes that have always stirred the educated youth of other countries is still a source of wonder to foreign visitors...
...heirs of whom he spoke was middle-aged Bertha A. Stott. whose tempestuous outbursts did not subside as she outgrew tempestuous youth. When Bertha Stott, her brother David and two sisters sued another sister and two other brothers for receivership of Stott Realty Co., Judge Ferguson again had to deal with untractable witnesses. During the case David Stott was fined $100 for refusing to answer questions. Then Judge Ferguson granted the defendants' crossbill asking dissolution of the company. Up jumped Bertha Stott. She cried...
...college, their own masters in many respects. Not they are too often victims of the illusion that all one learns at college are the "three R's", Rah, Rah, and Rah. The unfortunate illusion grases in many pastures. Its richest fields are parenthood careless of the ways of youth and press careful of vice and sensation...
...lowly furnace used to figure prominently in many of the old romantic yarns about Harvard. The poor but earnest youth from the middle West who had come to Cambridge with $2.75 and a high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally...