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Word: youngsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kids of Glen Cove, L.I. gave a Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus a drubbing when his candy gave out and they discovered that the packages on his sleigh were nothing but dummies. Muttered one departing youngster: "Santa Claus is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Some Excitement." Along the Via Dolorosa all was dead. An Arab youngster bounced a ball against the plaque denoting the Third Station. At the Sixth Station, where Veronica wiped Christ's face a Hebronite Arab brushed past silently, carrying an enormous tray of bread loaves. Christendom's greatest sanctuary, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was indeed as though it were a place of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Dead City | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Arizona voters sent him back twice and elected him for a fourth term. A lean, wiry youngster in his 30s, he was a familiar figure on the Hill, bicycling to work from his Georgetown home, pitching for the Democrats in the annual House baseball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...essay as a gentle caricature of a motion picture-more particularly, of the French motion picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Lifts & Luck. Besides Kramer, Coach Roche adopted just two other tennis protégés before going to Detroit to design new automobile gadgets. One was Ted Schroeder; the other was a youngster named Doug Woodbury, who died in an airplane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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