Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulk of the story centers about the character of Granny Sartoris. She embodies the spirit of "The Unvanquished" older generation. Although a woman, she is responsible for the wellbeing of her community by some clever if shady dealings with Yankee officers. She manages to keep her own plantation and those of her neighbors well stocked with supplies, and the enemy is actually supporting them...
...Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...
...light multiplied by its vibration period) might be such a cause. Last year Britain's potent Theorist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac suggested that the gravitational constant and certain others were dependent on t, the age of the universe, and were therefore slowly altering as the universe gets older. Last month in the Physical Review Mathematicians Samuel Sambursky and Max Schiffer of the Hebrew University in Palestine presented a detailed mathematical treatment of the idea that the universe is not expanding but appears to do so because the atomic measuring rods by which it is observed are shrinking-an illusion...
...always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats to her milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal of a lover. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write...
Cigarets used to be thought sissy. Zion City, Ill., where their use is frowned upon, still clings to the older belief that every cigaret a man smokes is a nail in his coffin. Last week Johns Hopkins Biologist Raymond Pearl gave encouragement to every loyal Zion Citizen when he declared: "Smoking is associated with a definite impairment of longevity. This impairment is proportional to the habitual amount of tobacco usage by smoking, being great for heavy smokers and less for moderate smokers...