Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, I haven't been recording for Victor long, and don't expect immediate success. Still, my older records were very popular, and I hope the new ones will...
Despite the death of the heir presumptive and the fact that the present King Prajadhipok is without a son as was his older brother King Rama VI, the Siamese throne will not lack for a successor. The late benevolent and fruitful King Rama V of Siam, father of these three, stocked Siam with royalty to come. He is generally credited with 370 children: 236 girls, 134 boys. Of these, ten beside the present King and the Prince who died last week are in succession to the throne...
...ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet. As he grew older Mr. Whitehead felt that business interfered with his real passion; he gave up business. He runs his school, lectures and writes on bridge. His rates for ten lessons sent by mail is $10; personal tutoring runs much higher...
...modern educational methods into the Orient in view of the formation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last year which led to the re-organization and expansion of the Chinese Department in the University. It has been frequently pointed out that there are vast stores of knowledge of an older civilization than any in the Occident that are all but ignored in the West. But of even more importance is the spread of European institutions and culture to the East...