Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio messages compelling for their sincerity and understanding, President Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie have addressed the youth of this nation at a "solemn and historic moment...
...moment of "deep meaning" not only to the United States; nor merely to individual young men; but to youth-as-a-whole, to the great mass of students and workers and would-be workers who form the raw material of the American youth movement...
...Germany the youth movement had a long history, antedating the Nazis and intertwined with the land and folklore of the nation. Here in the United States the youth movement, such as it is, is the outgrowth of more recent times, and of economic rather than cultural longings...
They have, too, not been loath to consider tinkering with the industrial structure facing them so coldly and discouragingly. This receptivity to change has characterized not only trade-union youth but college youths as well. Again unlike Germany--where university attendance was largely restricted to an upper caste, and students were accordingly conservative in their economic attitudes, American students--thanks to increasing scholarships and free education--represent many class backgrounds and are accordingly more familiar with the injustices of industrial society...
Ratner stated that an article written by Justice Homes in 1888 for "Youth's Companion' would be published for the first time in this year's law book. Mark Howe of the Buffalo University Law School discovered it and presented it as a gift to Dean Landis. The article gives Holmes's estimation of the characteristics necessary for success...