Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against unknowns, improving with practice. Their first ardent opposition came in the semi-finals against young George M. Lott Jr., Chicago; and young John Doeg, Santa Monica, Cal. The young men, prospective champions sages say, showed fight, forced the older men desperately, lost...
...Springs, S. Dak., the President said: "I want to see that old man alone." He left his wife and son in their motor, re-entered the sanitarium and sat down beside a stooped figure with cascading white hair and beard. The two talked for 20 minutes. Once the older man said: "Let's see. I saw him last in 1864." The old man was Hezron G. Day, 85, Civil War veteran, father of Admiral George Calvin Day, U. S. N., who commands the present Atlantic cruiser squadron. Mr. Day left Plymouth, Vt., 57 years ago, two years before Calvin...
...than one-half of President Coolidge's swarthy audience at Pine Ridge understood all that he said. Perhaps there were a few who bridled momentarily at the simple words: ". . . Many Indians are still in a primitive state." The President noted that a great portion of Indians, "mostly the older ones, still cling to the old ways, stoically refusing to go further along the modern road. They wish to live and die according to the old traditional ways of the Indians, and they should be permitted...
...Pork is a good food. One of the best. Religion may forbid it, but that idea will die with the older generation. While pork has been avoided with horror for generations as 'unclean,' it is now being eaten by our younger generation...
...common stock. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the company's bankers, with Speyer & Co. and the National City Co. underwrote the issue, receiving $1,422,956 for their work; 90% of the stock was subscribed for as soon as the books were opened. Union Pacific R. R., large holder of older B. & 0. stock, bought a large block...