Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets had to be distributed with the oldest numerical class getting preference, up until these last two games, because the University could supply the H.A.A. only with a list of students divided into numerical classes...
...Saturday Evening Post, oldest U.S. magazine, last week helped its brother celebrate, a birthday. The juvenile monthly Jack and Jill was ten years old. Rummaging through Jack and Jill's letters column (it draws 18,000 letters a year), the Post collected a piece on "Kids Believe the Darnedest Things." Some of the things they believe: that bird dogs fly, that "juvenile" means bad and "delinquent" means children, that Lincoln's address was Gettysburg, that when it rains it rains all over, and that radios are inhabited by entertaining little people who ought to be applauded and occasionally...
...invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping at every opportunity...
...United States Marine Band went to Grand Rapids, Mich., to play at the five-day annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the 43 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War, only six were on hand to hear the band this year. The oldest was 107; the youngest...
...oldest groundkeeper on Soldiers Field, who has watched the gradual changes, tells you that if you look closely enough these days at the plaque of Percy Haughton near the Stadium, you'll see a gleam in the eyes...