Word: elders
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...included stops at the Grand Canyon and New Orleans, father and son occupied separate mahogany-and- velvet-trimmed sleeper cars that dated from the 1940s, drank cocktails while listening to live piano music in the sumptuous club car, and dined on five-star meals. The passing sights prompted the elder Geddes to unfold new stories about his past: his days shoveling coal into steam engines, his first trip with John's mother. Over the miles, the train ride became special for both of them...
...Only cars belonging to students or those with out-of-state plates were ticketed, he claimed, which violated “a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws.” And in a letter to The Crimson, William R. Elder ’58 asked, “Is this an attempt to tax the ‘Harvard car’ out of existence by the imposing of heavy fines?” He pointed out that formerly legal parking was outlawed, while Harvard had not stepped...
...need to expand the College in response to growth in the number of University-bound students across the country. According to the U.S. Department of Education, college enrollment across the nation rose from 1.5 million to 2.6 million between 1940 and 1950.During one Harvard-wide public discussion, J. Petterson Elder, then-Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, urged College administrators to prepare for even more growth. At the time, Elder cited figures which indicated that by 1970 the number of college students would increase from 2.7 million to 6.4 million. The real figure exceeded even that estimation...
...speak out against this imbalance was businessman, TV writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, from the Ogoni region, east of Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt. Saro-Wiwa preached nonviolence, but Nigeria's then military government charged him with having "counseled and procured" the murder of four Ogoni elders, and in 1995 hanged him, to international condemnation. Despite the return to democracy and government promises to improve the lives of Delta dwellers, little has changed. Today in Oporoza - the traditional center of the Gbaramatu kingdom in whose backwaters, locals say, mend has its bases - villagers gather in a meeting hall...
...stubborn. Does your husband find it exasperating to argue with you? My husband and I rarely argue. I want to tell you something interesting: I believe so strongly in equality that I have even filled my family life with it. My husband and I have two daughters. The elder looks like her mother but has chosen her father's profession--she is an engineer. My younger daughter looks like her father, but her character is like mine. For this reason she is becoming a lawyer. So you can see we have divided our world equally. There is nothing to fight...