Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tabloid Daily News, as well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director of the American Council on Education's Youth Commission...
...arts, an able administrator. After graduation from Austin College (Texas), he played professional baseball in the Texas League. At 31 he was president of Franklin College (Indiana), four years later became president of Bucknell University. After four years there, he began in 1935 to investigate problems of U. S. youth as head of the American Youth Commission...
...Every biologist," he says, "knows that his science-the life-sciences-can extend the mental horizon, give better health, improve the economic status and promote the social understanding of any people or nation that will teach the subject adequately to its youth. The peoples of India or China are restrained far more by ignorance of simple biological truth than by unfamiliarity with letters, arithmetic or the rules of trade...
...since 1916 has Jane's been edited by a Jane. Founded 41 years ago by Fred T. Jane, a Devonshire parson's sea-smitten son who had run away to London in his youth to write about ships, Jane's handbook was turned over to Dr. Oscar Parkes on the death of Founder Jane. Dr. Parkes, who combined his practice as a London neurologist with an interest in the world's fighting ships, served during the latter part of the World War in Britain's crack Naval Intelligence Division...