Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both debating problems which have beset mankind for a long time. The U.N. diplomats are struggling with the problem of nationalism, which in our culture is only a few centuries old, and it may be solved in a few more centuries. The problems which beset religion are much older, and will be much longer in the solving...
...Room. Younger clerics on Laval's faculty were all for meeting the need. But older heads stood against them: there was no room for business and industry in the place which Bishop de Laval himself had ordained as "a perpetual school of virtue." Not until 1937 did the opposition yield enough to approve a faculty of science. Not until February, 1947, did Laval have a school of commerce...
...long last, the Catholics have recognized and adopted the beauty of the King James phrasing. Example: "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." The older Catholic Bible in English, the Douay, had the far less lovely: "And God said: Be light made. And light was made...
...Charlie Wilson's way of moving a new and younger production team into G.M.'s top spots to give G.M. new teeth for the coming dog-eat-dog competition in the automobile business. Furthermore, the team will be ready to take over completely when some of the older top executives, now close to the compulsory retirement age,* step down. (The gossip was that two or three of them would retire shortly...
...maid in the Monday family's home, Sara pitied the "hampered and hagged" master of the house, Matt Monday, who though in his 40s was still "like a child, and kept from his rights as a man" by "his good mamma and his older sister." When the timid Matt proposed, Sara accepted him. Then, aflame with youth and cocky in her new social position, she began to notice other...