Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheel of Fortune. If the ex-Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...
Some of this employment is in line with War Manpower Commission approval of regulated part-time youth employment where manpower is short. But not all. The Bureau's bulletin, The Child, declares: ". . . The flooding of school children into the employment market . . . is . . . characteristic of many . . . localities where available adult labor has not been fully utilized. It is distressingly evident, moreover, that for the most part the work of school youth is uncontrolled and unregulated and is carried on under conditions detrimental to [its] health, education and general welfare . . . hours of work are frequently so long as to make...
Before the war young men made up the bulk of the librarians at the institution, since Metcalf as well as college authorities considered male helpers more appropriate in a men's college. Under the National Youth Administration and the Temporary Student Employment Service, which are no longer in operation, undergraduate students could obtain part time work at the library...
President Pedro Ramirez' tight little military oligarchy disbanded 13 civilian organizations last week. One was a United Nations bandage-wrapping society, another a German culture club, still another a youth movement that hated both Nazis and Communists but loved the British...
...most blandishing portrayers of women in recent history: the late John Singer Sargent and his less famous French friend, the late Paul Helleu (pronounced Ell-uh). Both had undoubtedly, as the catalogue stated, felt the sorcery of young girls and of the ladies in whom the fascination of youth had been replaced by the art of studied sophistication. Both had been surrounded by wows and had made them look even more wowing than they were...