Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British themselves. But probably this is easier to do now than it used to be. Americans abroad always used to have a certain sense of inferiority, especially in England, where they could not get over the feeling that they were more or less Colonials in contact with an older and surer civilization. Now the United States is the most powerful nation in the world. . . . There will probably be more American Ambassadors in the future who will stay Americans...
...graduates of Harvard will observe how the recent additions to dormitories have been grouped with the older buildings, they will perceive that under the far-seeing leadership of President Lowell the college dwellings are already physically adaptable to college groups. The trend of thought among the undergraduates, who are intimately in contact with the social conditions now prevailing, as shown by the report of the Student Committee, further encourages the hope and expectation that Harvard will soon progress to a stage where the advantages to the student, of a small college, can be enjoyed in full together with those...
YOUNG WOODLEY?Glenn Hunter giving a masterly illustration of what happens when a schoolboy falls in love with an older woman...
Last week five organizations convened to hear reports on new researches important to medicine and certain verifications of older work: the Medical Society of the State of New York (in Manhattan) ; the American Association of Immunologists (at Albany) ; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (at Albany); the American Association for Cancer Research (at Albany); and the American Association of Anatomists (at New Haven...
Numerous examples of the influence of weather upon military and naval operations are cited n the essay entitled "The Strategy of Weather in War," including not only the older "stock" examples but also several from the Great War. Professor McAdie was Senior Aerographic Officer, U. S. N. R. F., of the Nary during the War, and trained a considerable number of officers at Blue Hill for aerographic work overseas. "Weather in Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus...