Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a vigorous discussion in Congress between these favoring the Method of Equal Proportions, which pats all the states on an equal footing, and those favoring an older method called the Method of Major Fractions, which gives a marked advantage to the larger states. For example, the 1920 population of North Carolina is 2,559,123 and of Vermont 352,428. Under the Method of Equal Proportions, North Carolina receives 10 and Vermont 2 representatives, and the "disparity" betwen the two states is 45 percent. Under the Method of Major Fractions, North Carolina receives 11 and Vermont 1 representatives...
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...
...absolutely disapprove such sentimental or political doctrines or views. There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...well when her part is falsely written. But she can pronounce her words and she does not need to make every line a dirge, humming or whistling it. Actress Barrymore said "mush" meaning "must," "wannering" meaning "wandering," and dropped all final dentals. Her voice became deeper as she grew older and she developed a crouch; otherwise her actions did not change. But near the end, the hungry little children in the orphanage cried "Hurrah for the Mother Superior" and, a few minutes later, so did the audience...
...Warburg, current Warburgs being Brothers Paul & Felix. The present story, however, concerns only Brother Paul, Board Chairman of International Acceptance, Associate Chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., and his son, James P., who will become president of International Manhattan. Of the two families the Warburg is the older, the more exclusively banking, the more internationally famed...