Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public wholly without charge, will study the "Strife Between Sea and Land," at Chapel Rocks, Squantum Head, Quincy, Oct. 2; "The Destruction of Rocks and Disposal of the Material," in Medford, Oct. 9; "Tilted, Bent, or Squeezed Rocks," near Arlington Heights, Oct. 16; "How We Tell Which Rocks are Older," at Spot Pond, Oct. 23; "How Geological Maps are Made," in Hyde Park, Oct. 30; and "How the Great Ice-Sheet Changed the Landscape," in Chelsea...
Latest figures showed that, temporarily at least, Stalin's sudden ousting of thousands of experienced executives in favor simply of Youth-which the Dictator considers more loyal to himself than older Russians with memories of how things used to be-was gravely slowing down Soviet industrial production last week. The Moscow censor even passed a dispatch announcing: "Bolshevik leaders no longer deny that the drop in industrial output is a result of the extensive replacements of personnel. They assert, however, that the drop is temporary and that the replacements were necessary to regear the apparatus thoroughly...
...changed her 15-year-old paragraph on drinking: "No gentleman goes to a lady's house if he is affected by alcohol. A gentleman seeing a young man who is not entirely himself in the presence of ladies quietly induces the youth to depart. An older man addicted to the use of too much alcohol need not be discussed, since he inevitably ceases to be asked to the houses of people of distinction...
...marines and regulars to China to participate in the international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's earlier troubles was heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves in the V. F. W. spotlight. Their listeners were attentive, their pictures in demand for the convention's timely...
...power which until now has guaranteed the fundamental principles of all society. . . . We affirm that the war has not been undertaken to build up an autocratic state over a humiliated nation, but simply that the national spirit should arise with the strength and the Christian liberty of older times...