Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furiously to wonder as to whether the best thing in the world for the future of the movies would not be to eliminate practically all movie actors and actresses over the age of ten. A delightful, natural and interesting film, that could teach some of Baby Peggy's older associates a good deal more about acting than they would be ever willing to admit...
South Africa. A skull believed older than that of the Rhodesian man of the Broken Hill mine has been found at Belingwe, near Bulawayo. Sir Arthur Keith, who estimated the age of the other skull as older than the Neanderthal man (50,000 years), will examine it. If further remains are found in South Africa, it may prove to be one of the earliest homes of the race, rivalling Java...
From Icarus on, famous flyers have usually been less than 30 years of age ?famous pilots, that is. But it must be remembered that it was an older man, Daedalus, an engineer and a sculptor, who designed the Icarian monoplane and successfully flew it from Crete to Italy...
...judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice are now nominated by the older Hague institution known as the International Court of Arbitration, and they are elected by the Council of the League. The President proposed that the judges be elected by the members of the court; in other words, that the court be self-perpetuating...
President Meiklejohn believed that his theory could best be realized by keeping Amherst a small College. He was, furthermore, inevitably opposed to mediocre teaching. And he was against the use of professional coaches in college athletics. .The result was to array against himself those older alumni who disapproved of his educational ideas and resented a system which trained young men to ask questions, the teachers whom he had been compelled to remove, the graduates who thought of their College as a booster thinks of his home town and whose ambition was a "bigger, better Amherst," and the alumni...