Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France has, however, a much older military alliance with Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co., owned 70% by the Czech Government, is 30% owned by the Skoda munitions trust which is according to latest reports in turn controlled by the French Comité des Forges. France, not wishing for another Fascist neighbor in Spain, might therefore have had equally good reason and better opportunity for interfering...
What Mr. Whitney would like to see more of, he said, was weight-for-age races (Saratoga puts on three of the nation's four) which would encourage owners of good older horses, who are usually handicapped out of racing by the time they are four or five years old, to keep them in training...
...spreading daily in the Press, it looked to laymen as if a national wave of sex crimes against children was in full surge. In the opinion of competent medical authorities, however, the number of cases of this kind of psychosis that reached print was purely accidental, although both the older Brooklyn convict and the Staten Island house painter declared that their crimes had been suggested by newspaper accounts of similar assaults earlier in the summer...
...would not shout so loud. Last week Saroyan's fourth book, Little Children, well illustrated his inclusive vices and his eclectic virtues. Of the 17 stories printed, perhaps half were worth it; five certainly did him credit, lent weight to the belief that the boy was growing older...
Muni's superb characterization of the older Zola is a result of the most careful and concentrated preparation. A lover of makeup, he added extra hair to his own black beard and worked out an arrangement which took three hours each day to apply. He studied all the existing records of Zola's life and the Dreyfus case. At home he spoke his lines into a dictaphone and played them back for sound. He mastered characteristic gestures: the irritated twirling of the pince-nez, the contemplative tapping of the stomach, the sudden bursts of laughter...