Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case. Lightly he skips from page 1,428 of the record to page 3, and back again, to make his points. His words, though spontaneous, are apt; his voice still sonorous, if no longer as powerful ("The horn you blow doesn't get any louder as you get older"); his argument confident without being arrogant. Other lawyers may try to put across a dozen ideas in a case. Davis prefers to narrow the issue to its lifeline: "Always go for the jugular vein...
...tables, round tables, rectangular ones, or a mixture of the various types and sizes! Matters of detail as well as the general educational and social aims of the Houses received his close attention as the new Houses like Dunster, Eliot and Lowell were being planned and some of the older buildings re-arranged to adapt them to what at the time was called the "House plan...
...important interview, because they all came in grey-flannel suits--even the ones from Columbia and Manhattan Colleges. There were twenty-five of them, five from Harvard, crowded into a small room, and the room was painted grey and altogether it was a gloomy atmosphere. Every half-hour an older man in a blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table deciding who was to get the Big Scholarship...
...cost older houses on a par with new houses, FHA would be permitted to insure mortgages on owner-occupied older houses up to 95% of the FHA appraised value, the same as on new houses (compared to the present 80% limit...
...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...