Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners lifted their dogs into the ring and "pitted" them, rousing them to snarling fury by holding them just out of reach of each other. Finally they let them go. The lighter dog, "Red," a natural fighter, closed in fast, grabbed his older opponent by the throat, spun him, slapped him viciously to the mat, and lunged his weight on him. This Red did again & again, to the rising excitement of the spectators, who shrieked "Kill 'im Red!" "Tear 'im apart...
...youth, the handicap of college editors, is also their advantage, for they are without the ties, convictions, and prejudices of older men. Ideally they mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...
...pipe some twelve identifiably different kinds of music. For 400 years eager teachers have bred away their natural song, using organ music to teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn and include in their song the needle's scratch and crack...
...Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title for little delinquents: Winnie-the-Pooh; for slightly older ones: Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote...
...supervising preparation of the American dictionary from England, where he is also editing A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...