Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also be there. And the modern successors of the telegraph lines which Ezra helped Morse to string along the tree trunks between Washington and Baltimore will be chattering up above, sparking out the account of the game between the Big Red and the Big Crimson. But the Vagabond, psychic youngster that he is, will sense the presence of Ezra by more than the metallic clicking in the press box. Ezra, he knows, will be very much present on the opposite side of the field. The coed sitting in back of him will complain that she can't see through...
...newest and lustiest youngsters in the industrial nursery is network radio. There are plenty of observers who would not look upon it in its 13th year and find the mark of genius. But last week, as the industry totted up its fall bookings, added the spring's and summer's and estimated income to year's end, nobody could deny that as a business proposition, radio was indeed a thriving youngster. It had come out of its second depression with more money than it entered it with...
Some of the statistical discoveries were more surprising: e.g.,, that a high-school youngster who 'is good in English or mathematics has the best chance of making good in college. But if he is good only at music or,art, he had better think twice about matriculating. These talents have a low correlation with other subjects; artists and economics do not go together...
...tale about Patient Roosevelt's stay in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester: Among those curious to see James Roosevelt was a young nurse who made bold to enter his room at 6 a. m. while his night nurse was out writing her report. Waking the patient, the youngster popped a thermometer into his mouth, gazed her fill, removed the thermometer, marched out. When Patient Roosevelt asked his doctor if he must be wakened so early, the young nurse was discovered, fired-but soon given a job in another hospital...
...Jimmy is a specialist in everything-life, fire, marine, air and group insurance. . . . The insurance fraternity is as startled . . . as the medical fraternity would be if a youngster who had never attended a medical school suddenly turned out to be America's greatest specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat, in abdominal and pulmonary surgery, in obstetrics, pediatrics and chiropody...