Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frost, to his surprise, turned 80. Explained he: "I got my sister's birthday mixed up with my own and just recently discovered through old letters that I was born in 1874, not 1875." A reporter asked him how it felt to learn that he was a year older than he had long believed. Said Frost: "I'd begun to suspect it for some time...
...long service in their own bureaucratic traditions, are buried in paper work and time-wasting procedures. They have been doing the same thing the same way for so long that they resist efforts toward a speedup. A 1952 analysis showed that 27.5% of the staff were 60 or older and 37.8% were between 50 and 60. Says a veteran staffer: "Nobody ever retires from the ICC. Departure is only by death...
...existing freshman dormitories along the river and the buildings now composing most of Adams House were of course standing long before Dunster, Eliot, and Lowell were even designed. The older buildings, Winthrop, Kirkland, Leverett, however, were without the dining rooms, libraries and common rooms necessary for House living. Work was begun first on Dunster and Lowell, so the older units were not ready for occupancy until a year after Dunster and Lowell had begun operation...
...entries, located in Westmorely, are considerably older; they were constructed about 1897, but Victorian diamond-paned windows and oak wainscotting compensate for any disadvantages resulting from age. Randolph, comprising D through I entries, is about the same age, but features spacious rooms, and a courtyard overlooking Apthorp...
...grew older, Dodgson learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing...