Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widespread civilization as well as a high one, for it left the carved facades of its urban centres over what is now British Honduras, Southeastern Mexico, two-thirds of Guatemala and part of "Spanish Honduras." To this oldest American civilization archaeologists have agreed to give the name Maya(pronounce the first three letters like the pronoun my). This is a name of uncertain origin, connected with a late Yucatan capital called Mayapan. It has been extended to cover a great nation which once numbered many millions...
...quiet, quick voice. His little white goatee flicks his sincerity at you; so too his gentle eyes back of his darkly rimmed spectacles. He likes, too, to recall how he was a member of the Michigan State Board of Health under four governors; that he is the oldest living member of the American Public Health Association; that he likes to do hard things for mental exercise...
...have pondered wistfully the oblivion which time brings to all men. They may have reflected sadly, "And some day even Chauncey will have been forgotten." They may have wondered which of them would outlive the others, perhaps to be chaired around Yale Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer of Portland, Me.; and Nathan L. Hazen, agriculturalist of Philo, Ill., who, though...
Thereupon, conscientious and righteous strict constructionists matched wits with conscientious and righteous loose constructionists, in a revival of the oldest political battle in America, a battle which has had for participants the greatest personalities of American history, a battle which is, in fact, as old as the Constitution itself. Tuesday the strife subsided--temporarily. The loose constructionists had won. Gerald P. Nye became the "second youngest" Senator...
...newsstand, he had readily parted with thirty-five cents for so entertaining an hour. There is in the current number surprisingly little that is adolescent, little that does not bear the stamp of mature literary discretion. In your reviewer's humble opinion, the rejuvenation of the College's oldest paper has resulted in a charm, a distinction, and an engaging literary candour that should win the commendation of the President and Fellows as a worthy expression of an important side of the College's life, as it has already won the praises and goodwill of graduates in all parts...