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Word: elder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother, Colonel The Hon. F. H. Cripps, wrote recently: "When Stafford was quite young he was very fond of giving advice to the elder members of his family. This earned him the nickname of 'Dad,' which still sticks to him at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Royal Naval College at Osborne for stealing and cashing another boy's five-shilling postal order. Back home, he insists to his father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House of Commons' exalted pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play In Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Varsity starting lineup; Batch-elder, g; Scully, lf; Burrowes, fr; Mavor (capt.), rh; Ogden, ch; Louria, lh; Heisler, ro; Potter, ri; Estin, cf; Chun, li; Dawson, lo. Substitutes; Spivak, Blanco, and Aguirre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Edges Engineers, 2-1 | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

...indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...succession," as against the Congregationalist concept of the "ministry of all believers." This problem was eventually solved by the creation of a 30-year period, during which the Anglicans will recognize the existing ministries, of the other denominations (and agree to such un-Anglican nomenclature as moderator, presbyter and elder), with the understanding that no minister ordained before the union can be shifted to any church without the consent of the congregation. When the 30 years are up, it is expected that the clergy of the united church will have become uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Example in Unity | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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