Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the success of the next push-to Dérna or Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
...Will Mayo went to the University of Michigan Medical School. Three years later, a serious, dignified young M.D., he returned to practice with his father. Although he assured people he was going to be "the greatest surgeon in the world," the farmers mistrusted him because of his youth and even his father kept tight rein on him. But when he was 27, Dr. Will asserted himself...
...city life-at least those who are good at farming. So said a poll of country youngsters themselves, taken at the 20th annual 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last week. Polices were the 1,570 4-H delegates, ablest and best-educated group of U.S. farm youth...
Attempting to organize a local chapter of the Youth Committee Against War, a nation-wide college group, the trio of Yardlings, Taylor Boggs, Arseni Karpovich, and David Heathe, call their own compact organization the Harvard Committee Against Dictatorship and Imperialism...
...machinery of Whitehall. . . . One reason suggested for my dismissal was that I was too old (69) to lead shock troops, but the command of such a force does not necessarily mean leading it into action. This is a young man's war and my object was to give youth its chance...