Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found none he liked. About to return to Alaska, he at last found one Para Krka, 22, the placid, pretty, dark-haired daughter of a pensioned gendarme and his innkeeping wife. "Everything it's just the way I got it in my mind since I was a youth, only she ain't quite so tall as I figured," said Martin Slisco...
...colleagues learned that the Presbyterian Church had recovered $1,600,000 in property, and counted on $400,000 more, which Dr. Machen's church had tried to take with it when it split off from the parent body. And to Dr. Foulkes, 59, big, well-beloved leader of youth, writer of hymns and Presbyterian mission board member, there went without fuss the office-moderator-ship of the General Assembly-which year after year is handed around among members of the inner circle which runs the Presbyterian Church from...
...soon as the Olympic Games were over last year. Dictator Hitler got down in earnest to a rigorous anti-Catholic campaign. Catholic confessional schools were suppressed at Württemberg, in the Saar, in the Palatinate, and a State Youth Law suppressed surviving Catholic Youth organizations by ordering all children to join the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth...
...benefit equally. At Harvard the balance is all askew; the pressure on young men to publish, or "perish", is so great that their teaching and tutorial sessions suffer. A man may be taught to lecture in a comparatively short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth, is one that demands much work and practice to at-ain. Since it is the young men who bear the greatest teaching burden, particularly in the sections of the large courses, it becomes doubly important that they master the art of teaching as soon as possible...
...tall lady, who has long passed the age of frivolity, feels at the velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first...