Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benevolent aristocracy may be the ideal form of government, provided the Olympian Elect can be found to direct it. But undoubtedly a situation where the older, more settled members of any department have a deciding voice in advancement and tenure provides a huge hole through which abuses may pour in. There is a possibility that the conscious or unconscious prejudices of the older members will determine their decisions, or that points of view not in agreement with theirs will be excluded so that the department becomes narrow and biased. The current Feild controversy is a case in point. There...
...more anti-Jewish legislation against the older Jews would be promulgated in Germany while the emigration plan is operating, barring any "extraordinary event" (i. e., another vom Rath murder...
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was a 10-to-1 favorite before ringtime. But John Henry Lewis, just seven days older but three years wiser in ring experience, is one of the most skilful boxers in the business. He had been defeated only seven times in 99 fights, had never been knocked out, and had successfully defended his world's light-heavyweight championship against all comers the past three years...
...study of the abilities of 103 W.P.A. workers to predict their activities, the book concludes that women orr more than men, younger age groups orr more than older groups, single men more than married, poorer classes more than better ones, Jews more than Catholics, and Catholics more than Protestants...