Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the University of Virginia in disgrace after Allan refused to pay his school bills and gambling debts of reportedly $2,500. He published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
...after 65). Then they passed another asking pensions for veterans of both wars-$60 a month at 55, $75 a month after 65. Such laws would add more than $1 billion to the federal budget right away; by 1985, when the average World War II veteran is 55 or older, it would cost more than $8 billion a year...
...Theory. Bingham is convinced that the city he found is older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...many of the older men the score had a particular significance. It was Virginia that ambushed Dick Harlow's team 49-0 at Charlottesville last fall. And although the Cavialiens have slipped a bit since then, a lot of the same performers lined up against Princeton in Palmer Stadium Saturday. Fullback Johnny Pap it was there. So were McCarey, Jones, Weir, Milne, Thomas, Leonard and Barbour...
...planning the new center because a rigid budget of $3,000,000 was laid down by the Corporation, but low building costs were not the main reason for choosing functional design; the architects considered such factors as the scale of other buildings in the area, the "spirit" of the older architecture at Harvard, and the atmosphere that College buildings should represent...