Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cartooning was kind of an interlude, and I'm relieved that it's over. I can't stay mad. I got a little tired of standing on a pedestal and preaching." This decision to move on was expedited by visits to Manhattan art galleries with his elder son, Thomas Reuben, 45, an abstract painter. Goldberg recalls the sculpture he saw there with undiminished astonishment. "Some of it was literally junk-old car parts, old tires. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can do better...
These appointments are part of a program recommended three years ago by a special Faculty committee under J.P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Since the Linguistics Department itself has few openings, most of the expansion has come by way of appointments shared by Linguistics and one other department...
Charlotte became Grand Duchess in 1919 after her elder sister, Marie-Adélaïde, was forced to abdicate for her pro-German sentiments during World War I. Charlotte quickly indicated her own, very different feelings by reviewing U.S. troops with General Pershing at her side; ever since, she has been on the friendliest terms with the U.S. Among her 320,000 people, she lived quietly with her husband, Prince Félix of Bourbon-Parma, a descendant of Louis XIV, and her six children. Charlotte's favorite pastime was growing roses, and the Vatican awarded...
Truly, the elder sons of the world...
...Dean Elder showed himself an eminently sensible man by asking if staff members of the Computation Laboratory could help. After some careful initial research, they wrote a computer program which satisfies the distribution requirements and which maximizes the number of students getting the House of their choice. (The IBM system at Yale, on the other hand, ignores students' preferences.) On the large samples of freshman preferences tested, the program assigned more freshmen to the Houses they wanted than did the present system. And the computer reduced the time necessary to make the assignments from weeks to under thirty seconds...