Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...Many an oldster still complains that the U.S. has lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...
...Military Training in 1947. As an educator he sees advantages in the so-called Swiss plan: subjecting men from 18 to 28 to three or four summer camps of two or three months each and evening drill, presumably once a week, for ten years. If he wished, the eligible youth could volunteer for two years immediate service instead...
Usury brings age into youth; it lies between the bride and the bridegroom...
Connie Pensavalle, a Greater Boston youth, was the Indian back who threw a scare into ex-Coach Dick Harlow and company two years ago up at Hanover. Chip Gannon scored thrice for the Harvards to ice the game, but Pensavalle, who passed for Dartmouth's only touchdown, kept the issue in doubt with his long heaves...