Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obnoxious to us by his eternal revival of "good old days," and accompanying accusations of our own times as weak, degenerate and dull. But here there comes among us an old grad, may more, one who is delving into a past that is far beyond the memory of the oldest of all the great collection of "Oldest Living Graduates" in existence, to tell us far other things. For the old days may have been, in fact were, undeniably great, but they were far from good...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuck, 82, oldest Social Democrat in Germany, friend of Karl Marx, La Salle and Engels, Honorary President of the Weimar General Assembly in 1919 and member of the Reichstag since 1884, in Berlin...
...found the solution of the mystery of the ancient Mayan calendar, the oldest time-counting system in the world, was explained yesterday by Dr. H. J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Dr. Spinden's latest research work on this problem has been done in the Museum at the University on the basis of voluminous photographs, and not in Central America as recently announced in the New York Times...
...signifying the usual weather conditions accord in that period with the known seasonal variations. For 33 years the Mayans tested and perfected their system, and in 580 B.C. it was formally inaugurated." The Mayan era, beginning in that year antedates by almost 300 years the era of Scleucus the oldest known era of recorded time in th old world...
Died. Joseph Hynson, 93, "Princeton University's oldest living graduate" (class of 1852), at Alexandria...