Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glimpsed occasionally, and at very important functions, a few embarrassed undergraduates have had the privilege of stuttering before him. But except for these, the undergraduate of this college generation must fall back on the face that so serenely looks down upon the Faculty Room, and on the estimates of older men who knew him, feared him, and respected...
...work, for a shoe company, an optical company, the General Electric Co., a spark coil company. He learned about men, kept up his interest in education and after serving the Government as a personnel expert, accepted a post at Northwestern University in 1922 as personnel director. Meantime, his older brother had become president of Dartmouth College, a man to whom Amherst, Colby, Rutgers, Brown, McGill, Yale, Williams, the Universities of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, were proud to give honorary degrees...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...officials, with Mr. Fox, Mr. Field, and Miss Breckinridge particularly. They have kept me informed of the fine purpose that has been kept steadily in view and the generous enthusiasm which I feel confident will continue to supply the necessary motive power to make the movement a success. An older person can hardly read this program without being impressed by the knowledge of the situation in higher education that exists in the United States today and by the good judgment shown in the selection of topics upon which you might justly expect to have an influence in bringing about reforms...
...understand intelligently the Chinese problem of today," began Mr. Kwong, cope must realize that China is a very much older country than any in Western civilization. America was discovered in 1492, less than five hundred years ago; Chinese history, on the other hand, dates back to 2400 B. C. Confucius, the great philosopher and religious leader, wrote a history of China in the year 60 B. C. and it was this same civilization, with no great changes, which existed in China in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, and which, in fact, to a large extent remains unchanged...