Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlton Club (founded a year later than the Garrick, but centuries older in Conservatism) seethed with indignation, last week, over the unseemly marriage of the young Earl of Bective to Lady Clarke of Rupertswood, in Brompton Oratory...
...Lipmans migrated about Russia. The father carried the Russian forenames Michael Gregory. The mother was Ida Birkhahn. Charles Bernard was born at Moscow (1883). His older brother Jacob Goodale was born at Friedrichstadt...
Charles Bernard Lipman is also a dean, of California's graduate division since 1923. He studied at Rutgers when his older brother was first an instructor there...
Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions...
Four other women, Hurd, Fraser, Curtis and Hoyt have won the Amateur three times. All of them succeeded for the third time when they were older than Collett, who was born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without...