Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keynote. He will be Candidate Hoover's floor manager. In the Ohio delegation, besides patriarchal Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, will be short, rotund Charles W. Seiberling, one of the rubber brothers from Akron. Delegate Seiberling filed his candidacy on the Hoover ticket without knowing that his older brother, Frank A. Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank A., who was in Florida at the time. "Stick to your guns," he said. Older Brother answered Younger Brother: "Stick to your guns, too, Charlie." To friends, Older Brother said: "It hasn't been necessary...
More subtle is the latest story, "Dis-order and Early Sorrow" (1926) in which nothing happens so melodramatic as suicide, in fact nothing at all, except convulsive disappointment in a child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either...
...commercial scale, in combination with tests in field tonnage, showed that Cristalina cane cut from moderately fertile land, rating between 24.146 and 54.1 arrobas (25 pounds each) of cane per caballeria, produced from 290 to 457 bags (325 pounds) of 96 degrees sugar per cab. The shallow uplands and older fields of Cristalina produced from 165 to 257 bags per cab. The decrease in quantity from the shallow uplands was due not so much to an inferior quality of juice as to an inferior growth of the cane plant on the less fertile fields, where the yield recorded was between...
...origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...
While Nicholas Frederick Brady's colleagues serenely created a new billion dollar institution, he serenely basked in the May proximity of an older and a richer one, the Church of Rome. The Bradys have always been observant Catholics and, with the accumulation of wealth, helpful ones...