Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumni association is active in cooperating with the School in securing business problems for use in teaching and in helping the School place its graduates. It has also been instrumental in organizing Business School clubs in various cities; and assisting recent graduates to become acquainted with the older alumni...
...Eight of the older battleships need to have the angles of fire of their main batteries increased, so that they may compete in range with British and Japanese vessels...
...anti-aircraft batteries of the older ships are incomplete and need enlargement ? especially because of the shortage of aircraft and aircraft carriers...
...with the white ring of senility around the eye, a man who walks feebly, sits listlessly in his chair, having all the marks of senility at the age of 65, 70 or older, will after les greffes testiculaires walk upright and with vigor...
...begin with, he is in the office of his older brother Henry, when he would rather be at Oxford or Cambridge. It had seemed rather a lark, two years ago, to exchange the dubious inferiority of a schoolboy's estate for the undoubted social elevation of a man of the world, a worker in the City. But time has dimmed the glories of his position, and with heels on the rungs of his office chair, his head is in the clouds. He pictures himself in the classic halls of learning, and the more he pictures, the less work he accomplishes...