Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster of 21 who was neither distinguished nor naïve. The name of Emil Hurja was on the Oscar II's passenger list because the University of Washington was sending this student abroad as its peace delegate. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt's chances of being re-elected...
...runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff-shirted officials that he, as well as the old standbys, deserved a trip to Berlin for the summer Olympics...
After some ups & downs the youngster fully recovered, enabling Father Watson, 60, and Son Watson, 32, to write a joint report which the Journal of the American Medical Association published last week. One point the Watsons wanted emphasized: "As far as we can determine . . . this is the first time autotransfusion has been used in the treatment of this type of injury...
When he was a youngster bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete...
...final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa, potbellied youngster who had won nine of his ten matches, opposed undefeated Gargantuan Tama-nishiki in the final. The match, of titanic length for Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre...