Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength, says Mrs. Buck, is in our youth and naturalness, forthrightness, human understanding and democratic nature. We are at our best when we are ourselves- "When we are as natural as our landscape" and do not try to take on that "smoothness of finish" that characterizes Europe's peoples. We like issues to be simple-"Whenever our leaders have, in the course of our history, cut across the tangle of complexities put out by lesser men to obscure the issues . . . our whole nation has risen to new strength...
...House ripped up the requests, or saddled the appropriations with crippling amendments. In one long, fierce, exhausting session the House made a shambles of the Administration's whole subsidy and price-control program, wiped out the domestic bureau of Elmer Davis' OWI and the National Youth Administration, and, as a final stab, killed the President's pet little bureau, the National Resources Planning Board (which is headed by his uncle, Frederic A. Delano). The "killings" were tentative, since the Senate must concur, but it is unlikely that the House will give...
...seem possible that the Nazis, hard-pressed in their Festung Europa, would attempt an invasion of Britain at this time. But there were some people in London who did believe that bullheaded SS youth might be prepared to make quick, suicidal raids. Such raids could serve the purposes of: disrupting Allied concentrations on British coasts ; gathering intelligence reports; bolstering Axis morale...
...Students' League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just as he reached his majority, he also reached the cover of the Satevepost,* which has since kept his bank account and his popular standing green. For the Post he has done, to date, either 222 or 223 covers, he is not quite sure which. During...
...speaking at a New York Herald Tribune forum on the problems that the air age gave to education. Winning the war means training youth to use air power. Creating a civilized postwar world means educating the whole U.S. to the possibilities of the new life whose framework is already here. These problems demand ''new world maps, a new geography, the rethinking of international relations . . . the support of an enthusiastic and discerning citizenry," and the abiding knowledge that "in the long run, air communication is bound to develop a sense of unity among people'' and further...