Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest settler, and one can't go wrong. Such may be the case but neither can one arrive at any definitely placed objective. And so, in the end, the adventurer is stranded by his fireside, alone with his books and his memories...
...children were released from Ellis Island when it was proved, Admiral McCully being a bachelor of large independent income, that they were unlikely to become public charges. Now their ages vary from 10 to 19 years. The oldest, Nikolai Smnov, is enrolled in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton...
...North American Review, born 1815, and thus the oldest magazine in the U. S., will (with the October issue) become a monthly instead of a quarterly. It will remain an "article" magazine dealing with current events. More sprightliness, timeliness, is promised...
Taken to Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, Cora Carpenter told nurses that she too had once been a nurse, that she too had been graduated from the Bellevue Nurses Training School. An old book was found, full of the names of nurses who had received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly...
...hundreds of acres, luxuriously complete with castles, works of art, and modern plumbing. His wife is Millicent Willson Hearst, a onetime actress, active in many charities. They have five sons, two of whom are already old enough to function in their father's news factories. Indeed, George, the oldest (23), already controls and operates the New York Mirror and the New York American...