Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest man in the Senate, a man who had never been defeated in an election, the " grand old man," the "Norseman," the "Viking," or?as he liked best to be called" Farmer Nelson " died aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad train on April 28; Senator Knute Nelson, 80 years of age, and senior Senator from Minnesota fell dead of heart disease as he was going from Washington to his home in Alexandria, Minn...
...gold-headed cane in Amherst, Mass., the traditional possession of the oldest man in town. It makes a good story every time it gets handed down...
China's reputation of having the oldest civilization in the world became a doubtful honor when western nations began to thrust their hungry faces over the wall and look about. To meet these irresistible intruders on anything like even terms, China found herself obliged to jump over a good many centuries into the current of modern ways. Out of pure generosity the United States decided not to take advantage of the naivete of her rebirth and therefore remitted ten of the twenty-five millions due to her as Boxer indemnity. This has proved to be profitable altruism, for since then...
Bishop Turtle's death ends the system of awarding by seniority the office of presiding bishop of the United States, which he had held since 1903. Bishop Garrett of Dallas, oldest living bishop, will fill the office until 1925, when a successor will be elected...
...Excavation for a new hotel in Washington, D. C., unearthed a subterranean cypress swamp containing fossil diatoms, minute plants which lived in the Pleistocene age. " Oldest inhabitants" are arguing with the scientists that the swamp existed in their boyhood, but the evidence favors its antiquity...