Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction Chief Alexander Svistunov divided his labor forces (two-thirds of them were youths) into 150 crews, had each compete for the honor of being "Frontline Brigade," awarded only when a crew produces one and a half times its daily quota. Seventy crews won the honor. To them, Marshal Stalin sent thanks and congratulations; for them, No. 6 was called Youth Furnace...
...mercury drops, layers of clothing are added inside the outer shell: extra shirts, trousers, underwear. The discovery by the Army Quartermaster Corps (which had few advantages in its youth) that separate layers of cloth are warmer than one extra-thick layer like an overcoat, is not new. Chinese coolies, for instance, have known for centuries that two 4-lb. coats are warmer than one 8-lb. coat...
...comes to you for guidance . . . when a girl wants your advice . . . when some extracurricular de mand is made upon your time and energy to help students solve their peculiar social problems and religious perplexities, then you feel you are serving a generation of hopeful, intelligent, and unspoiled youth, who may yet create a new order out of the chaos that we and our parents have brought into the world...
...Hitler Would Not Wait." The U.S. had its assets, if they could be used in time-an aircraft industry already at work on French and English orders, a mechanically apt youth, a small backlog of trained personnel. And in spite of everything, nine types of combat plane were already in production: the Flying Fortress (B-17), Liberator (B-24), Mitchell (B-25), Marauder (B-26), Lightning (P-38), Airacobra (P-39), Warhawk (P-40), Thunderbolt (P-47) and Mustang...
Forcing the the Latin Stones. American mind Santayana's in mind its comprehension of the meaning of progress while remaining quietly skeptical of it, and in its moderate, tolerant, and inwardly unyielding religious spirit which even in skepticism retains the training of its youth. His writing is starred with lines of poetry that break like flowers forcing the stones of the courtyard of his prose...