Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martians are happier than we are and much more intelligent. First, because their planet is several million years older than ours, and progress is the law; then, because they are less governed by matter, the gravity there being less. A man or woman of 150 pounds would weigh only 50 on Mars. "Besides, as the years are nearly twice as long, the Martian is only 50 when we are 94. Finally, the climate is more equable...
Their son was Orion. Lirazel had wanted to call him "an elvish name full of wonder and made of syllables like birds' cries at night." But Alvaric was ten years older when he returned from Elfland and took seriously the admonition of the Freer of 'Orion," Christom. He only compromised on "Orion," a name of the heathenesse and, with time, grew more set in his mind against all things elvish...
...that period. He declared that this was no gradual trend toward decreased fertility, but the result of an increase in birth-control knowledge. He declared that the decline of the birthrate coupled with the decline of the deathrate would change the complexion of England by 1940, because much older people would dominate the country. Incidentally, he asserted that coincident with the growth of birth-control the number of marriages is decreasing...
...susceptible to fear, a snake was shown to 15 children, aged from 14 to 27 mos. Seven betrayed no fear 'at all; they tried to grasp the snake and play with it or else disregarded it. The eight others showed guarded reactions; only two were afraid. Both were older than any of those in the first group...
...have rented a studio for von Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes no difference whether an artist is 65 or 25. A young man may express a musty spirit in his work, and the older man one that breathes the ardor of youth." Von Marr reversed the usual order of things, for he emigrated to Europe to seek his fame and fortune, and became the first and only State-employed professor of painting of American birth in Germany. Some of his paintings hang in the Munich Kunstverein...