Word: older
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Goodie's boyhood was spent in substantial middle-class ease. His father indulged Goodie and his older sister Dolly, but Lil Knight, an ambitious, talented woman (she was variously a concert singer and a suffragette), preached total abstinence to her children and made free with the peachtree switch she kept in the kitchen...
Through no fault of its own, France's younger generation has during the past two centuries been herded behind the demographic eight ball. For 200 years the French population has been getting progressively older. Since the mid-18th century, medical progress has contributed to increasing longevity, while wars and depressions have contributed to reducing the birth rate. In 1775, 7% of the population was over 60; today 16.2% of French people are that old. The median age has risen slowly through the 19th century, is now 35.7 years, the oldest in the world...
...they who insisted .on showing scenes from her early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until she is 14 does the play show Dorothea happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston, at 23, Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves...
...TITANIUM SMELTER, which short-cuts older methods by turning out pure crystals easily pressed into ingots, will be put into pilot production by National Research Corp. under a $1,183,495 contract from the General Services Administration. National Research expects that it can lick the big problem of impurities in the metal that has caused aircraft makers to balk at wide...
...into a coal seam at the rate of 4½ feet per minute, mine eight tons of coal in the same time (see cut). Two boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...