Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention the extremely important factor of age. My own recent book on regional enteritis (ileitis) cited, with approval, [Dr. Ward] Van Patter's figures from the Mayo Clinic to the effect that the rate of recurrence is less in patients 51 years of age and older...
...Older Worker: The U.S. Must Make Better Use of Him" see TIME, Oct. 19, 1953.-ED. Sir: Gerontologist Cowdry's warning, "Don't fall for that old vegetarian routine; it'll kill you!" may be sound, but comes too late to save me. I am 76, blood pressure 120/80, never felt better and I have only eaten meat twice since...
...October&*), and reports that his ileitis had left him with a debilitating dysentery ("No, as a matter of fact, they warned me that I should have a little of that and I never did"). As for the possibility of a relapse, Ike cited his doctors' opinions that in older men the chances were small; of the four other known cases in people his age, there was no recurrence. On the basis of his progress until now, he had no doubt whatsoever of his ability to continue as President for another four years...
...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...amateurs recognized the importance of their find. The spearhead was a partially fluted "Clovis point"-so called because the first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...