Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson Rockefeller, 39-year-old elder brother of groom-of-the-year Winthrop, won a citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, for nice work in the field of human relations...
...Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, heavy with honors, got another-this time from the students of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, who gave him their 15th annual Abraham Lincoln Award for outstanding public service to the City of New York...
Joseph D. Elder, associate professor of Physics at Wabash College and assistant editor of the American Journal of Physics, was named science editor of of the Harvard University Press yesterday. He will supervise the publication of material in the physical and biological sciences...
...when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want to attend. The story, insofar as there is one, deals with the love affair of Joachim von Pasenow and Ruzena, his Czech mistress...
...onion, at one time or another, has been enthusiastically recommended as a remedy for colds in the head and worms in the intestines. For centuries, the onion's medicinal value has been praised by witch doctors, old wives and bartenders. Rome's Pliny the Elder listed the onion as a cure for 28 diseases. Early New England settlers believed that the onion would prevent fits; Neapolitans of the Middle Ages thought it averted the evil eye. A 16th Century French surgeon, Ambroise Parè, used it instead of ointment to heal powder burns...