Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...percentage of contributors, the older classes naturally rank highest. In 1927, the class of 1885 was first on this list with 58 per cent of its members donating to the fund. Second place was taken by 1874, which was second as well in 1928. Eighteen seventy-seven with 41.4 per cent of contributing members stood third. First place in 1928 was won by 1903, and 1885 again scored high, securing third position in the list...
...thing I like most about college boys and girls is their pep, which seems perfectly endless. The older generation,--mind you, I'm not including myself,--ought to feel sorry for all that they're losing...
...language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...
Labor suspects that it knows what causes underlie the discrimination against 40-year-oldsters. Older men are discharged and younger men hired, thinks Labor, to keep down the average employe age upon which group insurance premiums are reckoned and paid. Unmarried men are in greater demand than family men because of the lower payments to be made under workmen's compensation laws...
...unenviable responsibility of breaking the ground for this undertaking would give a good deal to be able to occupy our places as university undergraduates for a few days; for there are many of the thoughts of youth, psychological shifts of one sort or another, which come to these older men through the haze, be it ever so faint, of memory. And, though to age belongs wisdom, in youth there is a degree of sound instinct, together with the normal allotment of human nature...