Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...
Gauging Hangovers. "She is altogether too good for your preschool children." wrote TV Critic John Crosby, "and should have a show aimed at older children, say. me.'' Among older children who have fallen for her are Pat Boone and Jerry Lewis. Sammy Davis Jr. will stay up all night to be sure to catch her show when he is in New York. Other adult male viewers find the going a bit sticky. Says one: "Much depends on the strength of one's stomach, extent of one's hangover, love of young mothers, and ability to endure...
Announced in early September, the change reflects a desire on the part of the Administration to see an older, more experienced man as Master of Dudley House in an attempt to see it reach the stature of an eighth House...
...talk of outproducing the U.S.? "Nonsense," says one U.S. expert whose specialty is Russian economics. By a totalitarian concentration, the Soviet Union might top U.S. output in a few items, but Russia's economy is "like a younger brother who always seems to be catching up to his older brother, but never really does because the older brother also keeps growing...
...models are just frosting on the foreign carmakers' cake. The older cars sell so well that almost every producer is ahead from 10% to 30% this year. With a new 350-acre plant at Mira-fiori, Italy's Fiat is making 1,400 cars daily, up about 40% from last year. In France, Simca alone expects to turn out 210,000 cars in 1958, v. 170,000 in 1957, while the industry as a whole will top the 1,000,000 mark for a 100% increase in the last four years. Biggest jump of all: West Germany, which...