Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether she stands in a gown of state of white-and-gold brocade, about to receive some royal visitor, the present mistress of the White House is always a real person-just as real, just as sincere, just as easily understandable, as was tiny Grace Goodhue in Vermont or older Grace Goodhue of the Burlington [Vt.] High School...
Sally Fairfax. "If ever a man had need of woman's kindness, Washington needed it now. He was disgusted with the world of men. He had finished with 'the Art Military.' Being only 22, it was perhaps natural that he should turn for comfort to an older woman. He had had enough of proposing to 14-year-old chits...
...that time Washington was only 16, but he looked much older. He wore a number 13 shoe and Lafayette said that his hands were the largest 'I have ever seen on a human being.' He was about six feet tall, with grey-blue eyes and reddish brown hair...
...final interpretation of the physical universe, by 20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under the sun' yet our new truths only amplify older ones and many of the older truths remain eternal-for example, Newton is included by Einstein, and Christ's teachings are still unsurpassed. And finally, I showed that the further science pushes its horizons, the humbler scientists become, their thought having undergone a long evolution similar to the growth of religious...
...task without giving him the awful responsibility of making substitutions as well, and directing the strategy of the game in a manner that will be pleasing to 30,000 spectators, millions of newspaper readers and millions more of listeners on the radio. It is essential that an older and more experienced man should have this responsibility, and that man we know as coach...