Word: oldest
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...believed to have originated in Asia because Asia is the oldest continuously dry land in the world; because climate and topography were ideal there for the development of the dawnman; because the glacial ice ages of Europe missed this area. Westward and eastward from Gobi probably traveled those hairy primates whose descendants are now called Smith, Karpetsky, Hop Lee, Seraphino...
Died. James F. D. Lanier, 69, retired, member of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co, of New York (one of the oldest private banking houses in the U. S.); in Manhattan, following an operation...
Died. Judge Walter Henry Sanborn, 82, oldest member and presiding judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for its Eighth Circuit; suddenly; of grip; in St. Paul, Minn. In his 36 years on the Federal bench Judge Sanborn wrote over 1,200 opinions, many of first importance...
Dorrie Shirley sat up in the garret with the oldest lodger in the hotel listening to him read; or she watched, with fascinated interest, the two-a-day theatrical folk, the bawdy country wenches, the flabby townspeople, the cheap sports who came to lodge at Aunt Jule's place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay...
...pamphlet was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Onetime (1888-1919) President, now President Emeritus, of William and Mary College, Dr. Tyler is a son of John Tyler. John Tyler was tenth President of the U. S. Since the death of Robert Todd Lincoln (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926), Dr. Tyler is the oldest living son of a U. S. President. That he should join in an attack on a President beside whom his father is historically a dwarf, was not without interest...