Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again he rang the Republican challenge on U. S. advantages: "In proportion to our population, we have one-fourth more of our children in grade schools than the most advanced other country in Europe. . . . Today we have more of our youth in institutions of higher learning than all the rest of the 1,500,000,000 people of the world put together. . . "Twice the number of homes owned . . . four times as much electricity . . . seven times as many automobiles . . . four times as many telephones and radio sets...
...Gentlemen," cried the well-dressed young man, "I am twenty-one! Will you hear me? Solomon once prayed for wisdom, and I pray for wisdom. I have a message of Youth to deliver. I am speaking, gentlemen, to help Humanity-yet you laugh...
...laughed. Jimmy Thomas had merely sat gaping. Several ushers rushed the young man out of Guildhall, still shouting "Youth! Youth!" He told reporters that he is one Herbert Gervers. Such is British tolerance that he was not arrested, was even permitted to re-enter Guildhall to get his coat, hat and stick from the cloakroom, finally swaggered off into the night, immaculate...
...youth of our day pass all the outworks of religion into its very citadel, into the presence of Jesus Christ Himself, what He was, what He stood for, and be challenged with that voice which long ago thundered, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and . . . thy neighbor as thyself...
...these ardent militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill as one might at first be led to suppose, but the spirit of Tom Sawyer seems to have been sufficiently revived so that tales of heroism are not lacking. What chance has the collegiate youth against such splendor? Obviously nothing, and may God have mercy on his soul...