Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naturally a matter of taste. Hers is admittedly one of the oldest in Scotland. His, by comparison, is a relative upstart in England...
...months he had been trying quietly to persuade the Egyptian government to accept a large number of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s dollars for a museum to house the relics that diggers of all nations are constantly extracting from the soil of the oldest nation. Mr. Rockefeller had written King Fuad a personal letter, and Professor Breasted was there to back...
...speaker will be Richard K. Hawes, a graduate of Yale College in 1910, and of the Harvard Law School in 1913. Since his graduation Mr. Hawes has been practicing law in Fall River, where be boasts the title of "the oldest living Yale graduate," although he is still in his thirties...
...Muerren, famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado...
...Mechanics & Metals, founded in 1810 and one of the very oldest in the U. S., was originally a labor bank created by members of the Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen for "the benefit of mechanical interests and to be conducive to the more successful conduct of the manufactories of the city." Their initial capitalization was $1,500,000, strong competition for the only three other banks then existing in Manhattan. Its first building was the three-story, onetime home of Alexander Hamilton. Customers approached the counting room over a front lawn, on which thrifty first President John Slidell kept tethered...