Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone reading the report . . . can but gather that those children who are unfortunate enough to contract heart weakness in consequence of a bout with rheumatic fever have only a slight possibility of living more than approximately 15 years longer. No other interpretation is possible. If literally true its import would be indeed calamitous...
...Does the Senator from Louisiana realize that the new Members of the Senate have determined, after five and one-half months, that we are no longer going to permit the Senator from Louisiana to run the Senate, and we are not going to consent to any unanimous-consent agreement so far as the Senator from Louisiana is concerned...
Flexibility, providing for the initiative of the individual student, is the dominant word of the hour. No longer do hour exams, mid-year probation, and attendance at classes restrict upperclassmen. No longer will specified distribution requirements restrain the ambitious Freshman. No longer will the elementary language requirement force unwilling students into German...
Meanwhile Alyce Jane McHenry continued to ride high on a prospering wave of publicity. Her mother Luella McHenry, an Omaha department store clerk, no longer has to work. Her father Paul, a Sioux City, Iowa salesman, left his job to become reconciled with her mother. Her sister Frances Jean quit school to share in the glory and excitement...
...time he had become a Japanese citizen Hearn, no longer a bohemian, insisted that "no boy or girl should ever be left unguarded." His son recalls him as too strict in his morality, declares that at the sight of some modern customs he "would surely have lost consciousness...