Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each member in terms which characterize them to the very end of the novel. Bunny, the youngest Morison at this time, appeals to us for his quiet sentimentality. The relations between this sensitive boy and his mother are as touching as they are true to life. His older brother Robert, aged thirteen, has had a serious accident which resulted in the amputation of his leg. Because of this handicap, the boy seems in Bunny's eyes to have usurped all the love and devotion of the parents and to have become a tyrant in the family...
...house. Bunny, who hated to be forced out of doors just because the sun was out, is allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond the comprehension of the younger generation, indignation and tears which result from the tantalizing of the older brother, all are described with a fidelity which creates in the reader, the author's own emotions...
Something of the regard with which the English invested their ceremony is known to the Americans who have paused in the Library of Congress for a silent minute before the draft of the Declaration of Independence, and who remember that the British crown is one thousand years older. It is not surprising that outsiders did not catch the spirit of the moment, for the peculiar, insular English people were at the moment most solemn and most English. "Defender of the Faith" is one of the titles of their King, but the meaning of the phrase has changed. George...
This is, of course, the real reason why American colleges are so reluctant to take part in German celebrations. Themselves largely influenced by the best of the older German university traditions, many of the American colleges and universities regard the restrictions of the Hitler government as destructive of that scientific spirit and freedom of thought which rightly made German teaching great. They did honor to the older German scholarship by imitating it. Likewise, they have opened their doors to independent and fearless German teachers who have been exiled because of their courage and independence. Naturally, therefore, they are reluctant...
...sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read: "Don't let them get you mad, Mr. Gifford." As things turned out, there was little for suave Mr. Gifford to be upset about when he faced 250 A. T. & T. stockholders at the meeting. The older member of the ubiquitous Gilbert family-Lewis-was on hand to ask an embarrassing question about Federal Communications Commission revelations of high rates for equipment charged by A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., but Mr. Gifford parried: "The rates . .. have been reviewed by the courts...