Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flame that tempers the bright steel of your youth never die, but burn always; so that when your work is done and your long day ended, you may still be like a watchman's fire at the end of a lonely road-loved and cherished for your gracious glow by all good wayfarers who need light in their darkness and warmth for their comfort...
Considering his 19th-Century fame, the prolific number of paintings he produced, and the fact that he taught French Modernists Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse in their youth, also British Painter Sir John Lavery, astonishingly little is known about Adolphe William Bouguereau. He was born at La Rochelle, France in 1825, clerked in Bordeaux under his father, an olive oil trader, attended Bordeaux's Ecole des Beaux-arts...
...More than in any other service youth runs the Air Forces. Frequently a man in his early 20s commands a bombardment squadron worth $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 in equipment alone. Most have no business training, though each unit is a business which must turn in a profit. Once Arnold's system is in full operation, a Stat officer will be attached to each Air Force unit down to the farthest squadron. By instituting a management-control system, General Arnold hopes to up those profits in terms of damage to the enemy and conservation...
Culbertson is no newcomer to startling ideas. In his youth he was an anarchist and a stalwart member of the I.W.W. During the 1930's, Culbertson collaborated with his wife to produce the system of contract bridge which bears his name, thereby providing entertainment for habitues of everything from the prep-school butt-room to the Walla-Walla chapter of the D.A.R...
...West Roxbury politician had introduced a resolution in the House which called Hooton a fascist who has been corrupting American youth for over a generation. He quoted the noted anthropologist as having called democracy "government of the unfit, by the unfit, and for the unfit," and saying that the Declaration of Independence was a "pathetic document...