Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students last December: "When this war is won-as it surely will be-it must be one of our aims to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the men and youth of the nation as a whole." A few days earlier, in answer to the question: "Is it not desirable that the German people should suffer humiliation and defeat?", Churchill answered: "I will be content if they suffer defeat...
...Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: "Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!" Platinum-haloed Maestro Leopold Stokowski, who knows fire and rhythm, got Dancer Carmen Amaya to give a special performance for him and his All American Youth Orchestra, willingly paid a fine for keeping the theatre open after midnight. Glossy-domed Impresario Sol Hurok, who knows a good thing even when he doesn't see it, signed up Carmen Amaya by cable for a U.S. visit...
...employed under the N.Y.A., however, because of a provision in the grant to the University stating that the average wage per student working in the University, shall be $15 a month or $135 a year. The University can receive up to $80,000 in a year from the Youth Administration, and about 600 students would get a chance to work under the plan...
From its birth, the Youth Administration has attempted to provide jobs for young people which will help them when they leave the shelter of the program and get jobs on their own. However, in a college where vocational training is emphasized and where opportunities for jobs which teach business are few, this plan must often be discarded, and students have to accept jobs which will not help them after graduation...
...deal of work which has been abandoned since the Depression because of the limitation of the budget might be started up again using student workers. Other possible uses for graduate students are increasing the efficiency of Widener and grading bluebooks. Art work and hospital work are recommended by the Youth Administration...