Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ours, the youngest class to enter Communications School, has the resiliency of youth to carry it through the necessary adjustment. What the beefing lacked in experience was replaced in force and vigor...
...nation's list of shortages. Educators were increasingly alarmed. The National Education Association reported that almost everywhere in the U.S. restless 16-and 17-year-olds (TIME, Aug. 2) are withdrawing from school at a mounting rate, asked parents and students to remember that "high officials . . . have urged youth ... up to 18 to build the foundations of a broad education [as their] greatest national service...
...bobbed and weaved, grimaced and grunted, swung his hard fists in & out, up & down. Hammering Henry Armstrong looked like old Perpetual Motion himself. But he was not. He was a sluggish, weary old man of 30, plagiarizing his youth. Lithe, 23-year-old Negro Ray Robinson knew it, and held back for ten shadowy, monotonous, one-sided rounds. The customers also knew it and lustily booed the kind of drama they did not come...
More than 300 years ago John Harvard brought to us from England a faith in a land that was to grow beyond his time, and a firm determination that the youth of this land should have the benefits that come with learning. Today that spirit lives again in our distinguished guest from England, the Honorable Winston Chatebill...
Leading a varied life as varied as a French Foreign Legionaire, Professor Friedrich came to America in 1922 thoroughly discouraged with the passive and conservative life at Heidelberg. Joining several other European students on a lecture tour of the United States sponsored by the then powerful Youth Movement, he crossed the continent several times and by that time had learned English and had decided to stay. In 1926 he came to Harvard...