Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...
...smart black Russian boots and well-cut woolen tunic contrasted sharply with the padded garb of Yenan's comrades. He had spent half of his 24 years in Russia, where he had gone in 1935 during the Communist Long March from Central China to the Northwest. His elder brother is still in the Soviet capital...
...major effort of U.S. Protestants to meet present-day deficiencies of the King James version. The American Standard (1901), which sold by the million, profited from three centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...
Married. Major Benjamin Welles, 29, bonvivacious elder son of sobersided Sumner Welles, and prewar New York Timesm&n., soon to join the Times's China staff; and Cynthia Monteith Aitken, 28, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...elder Bingham had resorted to insurance offers and movie-star contests to double the C-J's circulation; it had become strictly a business-office paper. It needed a Mark Ethridge to lift its editorial chin. In 1936 it got him, for a reported $25,000 a year...