Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kersey, who bubbles in a hyphenated language of his own, told his school principals that he proposed to make his students "the most health-adequate youth in America." He ordered a physical checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...
While thousands of young Americans prepared to receive their first Easter Communion, 1,100,000 German youths, just turned 14, had a first Nazi "communion" two weeks before Easter-complete with organ music, readings from Mein Kampf, sermons based on the Führer's writing. Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann spoke over the radio for the Berlin ceremony, cited Hitler as a name to worship and an example for all young people to follow...
...Nazi "communion" is henceforth to take place every year around Easter, to incorporate each year's new crop of youth into the party. Church Communions, as such, will not be prohibited, but the Nazis expect that the "civil communion" will draw most of Germany's youth, and that religious services for Germans are "doomed to be crowded out by the new life of new times...
...Elden Sawhill '43, chairman of PBH, and in charge of plans for the conference, has outlined the schedule with Maxwell Miller, Regional Director of Youth Activities of the OCD. The conference has been set at Harvard because of its proximity to the Regional Office in Boston and the facilities available...
...journalist, no OCD coordinator, but a youth right out of college and training for an Army Air Corps commission wrote the week's most penetrating comment on morale. Published in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader was a letter written back home by handsome young Flyer Jerald B. Davis...