Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sande-trained Sceneshifter, older brother of Stagehand and a likely choice for this week's Santa Anita Handicap, came close to victory when he placed second to War Admiral in the Belmont Stakes last year...
...Last week there were about a million, 800,000 in the hands of the 46,000 new car dealers, the rest in the lots of independent used car dealers. Price cuts of ten to 25% on jalopies (trade parlance for worn-out cars) and the big batch of cars older than two years kept the used car turnover in January almost the same as January a year ago, but the total inventory remained excessively high, particularly in late models. Automotive men are agreed that if about a fifth of the used cars can be disposed of, new car sales...
Winning championships is an old story to Birger Ruud. Olympic jumping champion twice (1932 and 1936), and world champion thrice, he has competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first...
...affliction as perennial as Yankee gout is Harvard's advisory system, Freshman advisers are noted for their well-meaning but negative, and sometimes absent, guidance of Yardlings, many of whom have come from schools where personal and thorough counsel from older teachers was a rule rather than an exception. Inseparable from the problem of guidance in a year turbulent for Freshmen with new educational methods and new scholastic standards is that of maladjustment. There are two kinds of maladjusted Freshmen; first, those that come to Cambridge either with personality, social and moral, or financial problems, for whose predicament there...
INTEREST in Harvard and what Harvard men do seems to run high in other colleges. There is a report currently running at North Carolina State College to the effect that "Harvard freshmen want their young girl chambermaids replaced with older ones because the young ones sing and disturb the boys...