Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tables of climatic data, however, inevitably become inaccurate," Professor Ward pointed out, "and the time has come for a new and more comprehensive book. Professor Hann is dead, but Professor Koppen, who worked with the older man for years and is at present the leading figure in the older school of European meteorologists, has undertaken the work. He has selected some 25 meteorologists to collaborate with...
...ships and other assets valued at ?7,000,000. Therefore Baron Kylsant merely smiled, last week, at London newshawks when they asked if he expected "trouble" from the Australian unions. Lord Kylsant expects, it was learned, to augment the Australian Commonwealth Line with a few of the smaller, older White Star ships in case the Australian labor leaders are very, very good. Should "trouble" actually arise, His Lordship has but to transfer his seven bought-at-a-bargain ships to service with one of the chief companies which he directs, namely the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., the White Star...
...like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school. He returns and finds his parents vaguely familiar, like the clock on the mantelpiece, and about as interesting as the 1913 volumes of the Atlantic Monthly on the bottom shelf of the bookcase...
Thus far the Lion's roar has tamed his whelps. Ireland, India, and Egypt have been reminded of their manners with no gentle cuffs. But the cubs are growing older and wiser, and though the Lion grants them petty liberties here and there, they are feeling their strength. Whether or not the strength of Egypt is as yet commanding is a question which only time and the British warships will solve...
...Vogue (fashions semimonthly, circulation 137,000) gave birth last week to its third child, Vogue Verlag of Berlin. Older offspring are British Vogue (1916) and French Vogue (1919). The proud parent boasted in full page advertisements in U. S. newspapers: "In establishing these foreign editions, Vogue has accomplished something that no other periodical, and no newspaper, has achieved in the whole history of publishing. . . . Vogue knows no frontiers...