Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grounds of New Rochelle High School the totally wrecked jalopy was placed as a grim warning to the city's youth. And shocked parents and school officials learned that New Rochelle bars were an after-school hangout; that a survey showed 94% of high-school youngsters questioned drove or expected soon to drive cars; 28% of those who drove had no licenses; 57% had been in automobile accidents; "wrinkle fender" (i.e., automobile tag) was a popular game...
...working out the plan to keep the Army abreast of changing trends throughout the world, and to school our enlisted youth in the true value of our challenged democracy, the War Department has engaged over 150 well-known speakers, including William L. Shirer and Hallett Abend, to dish out the uncensored facts to buck privates. Already, over 350,000 pamphlets and four tons of maps are ready for shipment to training centers. And less recently, Army posts have been introduced to a new orientation course. It includes 15 fifty-minute lectures on world events leading up to Pearl Harbor...
Acting upon a request from the government's Office of Facts and Figures, the Harvard Liberal Union will distribute a questionnaire today in the dining halls of the Houses. The circular will follow a plan drawn up by Professor Wilbur Schramm, Coordinator of Youth Information, whose office requires the information as an index of student opinion...
...round table on Defense Service Work, headed by Maxwell Miller, Regional Director of Youth activities of the Office of Civilian Defense, the possibilities of physical exams and body-building programs for everyone under 30 years of age were discussed...
...plenary session, which concluded the conference, it was decided that the Intercollegiate Community Service should not join with the International Student Service, an independent youth organization sponsored by Max Lerner, Herbert Agar, and other prominent liberal thinkers...