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Juvenile Distances: one mile (1984-85, 87); 11/16 miles (1986 and since 1988).Year Winner (Margin)Time Jockey Trainer 2nd place 3rd place1984 Chief's Crown (3/4)1:361/5 Don MacBeth Roger…

Brewer's: Juveniles

(3 syl.), in theatrical parlance, means those actors who play young men's parts, whether in tragedy, melodrama, or light comedy. Thus a manager scoring a play would write against Hamlet,…

Juvenile Fillies

Juvenile Fillies Distances: one mile (1984-85, 87); 11/16 miles (1986, 1988-2001, 2003); 11/8 miles (2002).Year Winner (Margin)Time Jockey Trainer 2nd place 3rd place1984 Outstandingly*1:374…

Gault, in re

(Encyclopedia) Gault, in reGault, in reĭn rā gôlt [key], case decided in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault had been found a delinquent by an Arizona juvenile court and…

Carpenter, Mary

(Encyclopedia) Carpenter, Mary, 1807–77, English educator. She devoted her life to the establishment of schools and institutions and the promotion of educational reforms. In 1835 she organized the…

juvenile delinquency

(Encyclopedia) juvenile delinquency, legal term for behavior of children and adolescents that in adults would be judged criminal under law. In the United States, definitions and age limits of…

Lindsey, Benjamin Barr

(Encyclopedia) Lindsey, Benjamin Barr (Ben Lindsey), 1869–1943, American judge and reformer, b. Jackson, Tenn. As judge of the juvenile court of Denver from 1900 to 1927, he founded the American…

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

(Encyclopedia) Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879–1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b. Lawrence, Kans., grad. Ohio State, 1899, Ph.D. Columbia, 1904. Her novels include The Bent Twig (1915),…