Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over in the Birmingham town hall Neville Chamberlain's hearers were something a good deal more than "old comrades" of 20 years' standing. They were the people who had given him his start as a statesman 30 years ago, with whom he had spent his boyhood and youth, who had respected and feared and loved his great father decades before that-"to whom," as the Prime Minister said, "I owe my political education and without whose unfailing support, I might say without whose hereditary support, I should not be occupying the place that I am today...
Leningrad has 60 institutions of higher learning, 103 technical schools, 487 elementary and secondary schools (412,000 pupils), 25 theatres, 42 moving picture houses, 37 museums, 107 scientific research institutes, 89 hospitals, 262 dispensaries, 240 nurseries and 21 stadiums including the huge K. I. M. (Communist Youth International) stadium west of Vasilyevski Ostrov (island), Leningrad's Greenwich Village. Tsarist slums have been replaced by modern workers' houses, gutters by sewers, alleys by paved streets. In 1938 Leningrad spent 364,000,000 rubles ($72,800,000) on construction work alone. The city's total budget...
...that packs more into a fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...
...appeal to the youth of America is to stand steadfast on our traditional foreign policy laid down by George Washington in 1793--neutrality, non-intervention, no entangling alliances, and no entangling peace." Representative Fish continued...
...Unions are the main liberal force in America today," Harry Bridges, well known labor leader, said last night, as he called upon the American youth movement to join the unions in their struggle to preserve civil liberties and organize labor...