Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomb, whose discovery was announced last Tuesday, is reported to be some 1700 years older than that of Tut-Ankh-Amen. Dr. Reisner, who has just returned from Egypt, declared that the tomb is probably that of an Egyptian princess and not of the Cheops or Sneferuw as it was at first reported. From the reports received from his assistants and from his own knowledge of the situation, Dr. Reisner concludes the tomb to be of the Fourth Dynasty. If Dr. Reisner's conclusion proves to be true, this new tomb is the only important intact tomb antedating the Sixth...
...authority. Some say that another strong man would remake it. But Mr. Longworth, although able, has not the personality of Czar Reed, the powerful will, coupled with a brilliant mind. Longworth did not make his reputation like Reed, who in one of his first speeches, questioned by an older member who aimed to confuse him, answered the questions and then drawled: "Now, having embalmed that fly in the liquid amber of my remarks, I will proceed. . . .'' Mr. Longworth's talents are less showy and breed fewer enemies. So there is small prospect of his becoming another Czar...
...however, "expected that ordinarily they will not be younger than 25 or older than 35 years." (The Rhodes age limit...
...school does not proselytize in religion, but by its influence leads away from the formalism of the older generation. I once saw an old Moslem, when the muezzin sounded, try to pray to the east while riding on a tramear. The curves kept him jumping. But that mechanical, ostentatious religion is being left behind by the educated...
...example should do much toward sobering modern youth. Nothing that the older generation can say could bring the irresponsible swain to his senses more rapidly than a visit by the tailor to measure him for a winding sheet. The scatterbrained flapper ought to come closer to philosophy than at any other time in her life as she slowly goes to the Copley to keep a tea date with her undertaker...