Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, 137 miles from Washington where Surgeon Mayo talked, one of these older men, himself a surgeon, made his comments on old age. He was Surgeon William Williams Keen, who celebrated his 90th birthday during the week. Great technician in brain surgery, he has written much on diverse medical subjects; has taught; has fought, in the War. Governments have given him their medals of gratitude, students their adulation. Of old age, he said last week: "It just happened. I have lived a happy life and am fortunate in having made many friends. I love life and I have no sure...
...Shantung, for example, the town of Wangchihpao was sacked and 1,000 Chinese killed. Many children whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
...front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin said: 'Naturally my father could not have recognized me in the baby, because it was not my baby. I have never allowed the child to be photographed. The picture is obviously of an infant much older than mine. Mine is an image...
...first article on "The Way the World is Going" in the New York Times H. G. Well's chief observation seems to be that its inhabitants are growing older. Insurance statistics are marshalled to prove that the span of life is daily lengthening and that soon it will be proper to send white flowers to the funeral of one who quite his life at the tender age of three score and ton. Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, heir presumptive* of a dynasty over 2,000 years older than that of Edward of Wales, arrived in Manhattan last week from his studies at Oxford, en route to the funeral† of his imperial father in Japan. Although Prince Chichi-bu is the sole member of the Japanese Imperial House ever to visit the U. S., and although his is the oldest reigning dynasty in the world, he went all but unnoticed...