Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women over 18 are sent to Brandeis each summer by their parents or by their local congregations (cost: $200 each). This year a new, younger group (from 13 to 18) has been added, known as the Alonim (Little Oaks). But Brandeis has found its biggest success with the older oaks, in the short retreats for adults started last summer...
...Only 16% of young Lutheran bachelors (age 16-20) admit to sexual intercourse (whereas Kinsey found that, among nonchurchgoing Protestants in the same age bracket, 90% of grade-school-level males, 80% at high-school-level and 45% at college level had premarital intercourse). Among older nonmarried Lutherans (age 31-35), the figure jumped to 33% (Kinsey's figure...
...friends in the press corps mobbed the dusty red truck that brought him back. "Papps" Noel, his blue prison pants rolled above the knee, his sunburned face worn but happy, looked older than his 48 years. Noel said that after his camera arrived in the prison camp, the Communists put him under 24-hour guard, shuttled him from camp to camp to take photographs. Added Noel: "At first, lots of the boys refused [to pose]. But when a few pictures came back in the mail from their home-town papers, they realized I was playing it straight ... I think...
...York Post, it was the likeness of a mildly balding, clean-shaven man in his 40s. Last week Dr. Kingdon, 59, decided to be frank about his looks. Without warning to the readers, the Post overnight changed photographs, used a new one of a bald, bearded and much older man (see cuts...
...debt, revamp the capital structure. Even after that is done, investors will look twice before buying into the company. Its streamlined plant requires a steady high rate of production in order to show a profit. It would be hit first and hardest by even a small business slump, while older plants might cut back operations and still earn money. Thus, investors are apt to be chary of risking money on Margam...