Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this is in part due to the fact that they are the brighter and more industrious boys, for that is a reason why they have been prepared sooner than their fellows; but the very age is in itself a factor. There is a natural time for the innocent...
...psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
Married the father, divorced him; married the older son, divorced him; married the younger son. That is what Olga Renovsky, 18, of Harbin, Manchuria, did to the Urosov family between last spring and last week...
President Loomis, with Mr. Stotesbury and the much older George Fisher Baker, had written letters to stockholders asking voting proxies against Mr. Loree's possible control of the road. The New York Central, the First National Bank of Manhattan and J. P. Morgan & Co. were of course their backlogs. But even that array assured no victory. Mr. Loree's men had made house-to-house solicitations among stockholders...
...biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...