Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Johnson, perhaps taking cognizance of recent figures re shortage of men on her West Coast, makes a plea (TIME, April 24) that older men be sent to war and the younger men stay home because "the country cannot afford further sacrifice of potential fathers." Not to avoid putting on the uniform again, but simply to defend the reputations of those of us who are 40 and over, I protest we are still potential. The late Arthur Brisbane argued and the still kicking Dr. Richard T. Ely (80 plus) is demonstrating that older sires tend to produce intellectually superior offspring...
Surely the older men are willing to be fathers. It is such belittling propaganda as Miss Johnson's which hampers us. Perhaps we ought to have an organization...
...Bilbo thus returned to a favorite theme and revived an idea older than the U. S. itself. By subsidizing a Negro exodus to Africa, he maintained, the U. S. would rid its whites of a depressed and depressing race, save itself from racial "amalgamation...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...
Probably, as the production grows older, the cast will become more at home in heir parts and will give them more life,--but even as the play stands, it is a mature piece of work, a tribute to the Dramatic Club...