Word: greying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grey are not subscribers or newsstand buyers. Possibly TIME is forwarded to them by U. S. friends...
This is from South Sea Settlers, p. 261, by J. R. and B. B. by Grey, an English book republished here by Henry Holt & Co., New York. The authors are ranchers or farmers on the island Moorea near Tahiti in the Pacific, and as distance lends enchantments you might care to hear from your far-off readers through the above quotation. I am curious to know if the authors are really subscribers, and you might think proper to answer through TIME...
...rangy, steel-grey, 52-year-old junior Senator from Connecticut, Hiram Bingham of New Haven, who styles himself "explorer"* sooner than "politician" and who is more professor* than publicist, returned to the U. S. some weeks ago from an extended tour of the Orient. On his way back from war-ridden Tientsin, he visited his birthplace, Honolulu...
More than 100,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony. Six miles of veterans lined up to do honor to their old military chief. Some of them were dressed in field grey; others were resplendent in plumed helmets and gold-braided tunics of imperial days. Gathered there, too, were many of the highest Reich authorities, from Chancellor William Marx and several of his cabinet to Marshal von Mackensen, Generals von Francois and von Ludendorff...
...Michigan, for the first time in 25 years, the punishment was not directed by Coach Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost. Overwhelmed by duties incident to the general direction of athletics at Michigan, the grey-haired gridiron notable turned the post of head coach over to his right hand man, Tad Weiman. One of the most famed coaches of all time, Yost has won nine Western Conference championships out of 15. Since 1901, his teams have scored 5,989 points; their opponents 834. Yost's retirement came almost coincidentally with the announcement from New Haven that famed Tad Jones...