Word: octogenarian
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...times, Author Gary allows his brilliance to run away with his common sense, and in overstating his case he undercuts it. But, for all that, he has a way with words, and he tells a long story with enough immediacy and warmth to recall the salad days to an octogenarian...
...Stuart Little,#&134; who also wanted some information for a promotion booklet, the problem was simple. Out of Editor & Publisher he picked the names of 250 dailies, sent them all the same letter: "There are upwards of 3 billion crows in North America . . . But I think there must be octogenarian crows that live far beyond the twelve-year span allotted them by the migratory bird experts. My grandfather, for instance, had a politically-minded talking crow which he chased off his farm when the bird deserted Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 and plumped for Alton B. Parker for President . . . Grandpa also...
...life than a liberal arts education? and 2) to what extent are graduates participating in community affairs? After a committee of experts had framed questions to bring out the answers to these and other points, we prepared a 1 3-page questionnaire and mailed it to graduates from the octogenarian class of 1884 to the fledgling class of 1947. When I mentioned the project in this space four years ago, we had just begun the first rough compilation of results. We realized then that the really important statistical job of weighing one factor against another - of correlating earnings with...
...because of the prominent Republicans this did not happen. Only two Republicans--those endorsed by the NBC--won in last week's primary. One of these, Lee M. Freidman, is shortly to become an octogenarian and therefore has no political future. The other, Perlie Dyer Chase, has spent fourteen years in the City Council which indicates to this writer that he can go no further. Chase is also heartily disliked by City Hall Democrats. Hence, neither Republican will have any political weight on the City Council if elected. Theoretically every man's word should carry as much weight...
...difficult to separate legend from fact in ascertaining the exact cause of young Hearst's dismissal. The University archives are silent on the subject, and few of his octogenarian classmates can recollect the exact circumstances...