Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of prices, international producers' associations usually step on the accelerator rather than on the brake. But the three-year-old international copper cartel has learned better from the sad experiences of the older cartels. Fortnight ago the cartel permitted an increase in production from 95% to 105% of agreed tonnage. Despite this deterrent, prices continued to rise. Last week the cartel removed all restrictions on production, thus dumped a potential 30,000 tons per month more copper on the international market. This time the U. S. price pulled up short at 11.25?, the export price fell...
...innovations currently attracting attention here are the Littauer School and the Nieman Fellows. Whether any school of public administration can obtain concrete results in a government dominated by politically swayed factions is questionable; and the Nieman Fellows have been labeled by many newspapermen as "too idealistic to succeed." They older systems of education were idealistic, but today's keynote is realism. This changed viewpoint is the reason why many alumni taught under the older system wail loudly at the glaring lack of interest in culture at present. The spell-binders of yore are disappearing in the teaching ranks as surely...
Evans had shown that an uncut Hamlet is no stunt, but an illuminating and vital enlargement of the world's most famous play. Shakespeare's tragedy, smudgily superimposed on centuries of older material, muddied by contradictory First Quartos and Folios, bristling with controversial motivations, above all dealing with a chief character as baffling as he is baffled, is truly-in Critic T.S. Eliot's phrase-"the Mona Lisa of literature." Its elucidation requires not so much scholars as detectives.* When seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever...
...Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices as to those in poolrooms. Even more disconcerting was the legendary reputation he and his older brother Max* acquired in Chicago as hustlers in the bloody circulation wars of over 30 years...
Observed the old corn growing older...