Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pirates. "What sort of people are they," asks the Times, "the oldest of the Old Powers, the youngest-indeed the unborn-of the Newest Powers, starting to challenge Fate again?" There are, it believes, "one or two obvious facts" about themselves which the British tend to ignore: "their ruthlessness, for example. The English in America exterminated one race, the Red Indians, almost completely, and imported another race, the Negroes, as slaves, on whom they inflicted unspeakable brutalities. The English in Australia carried extermination even further ... a good deal of it by the simple use of arsenic, though there were other...
...other strikes, newspapers have shut down, or resorted to Vari-Type. The Journal of Commerce, oldest (121 years) U.S. business paper and the only New York daily still living on historic Park Row (in the old Pulitzer Building), did neither. Along with 24 other editorial and ad staffers, curly-haired Editor & Publisher Bernard J. Ridder, 35, and his 30-year-old brother Eric, general manager, sat down at the linotype machines and set the type themselves. (They had once been linotype operators as part of their journalistic training...
...months the U.S. press has watched a forced adventure in journalism-newspapers produced by Vari-Type, without benefit of striking printers or linotype machines. Last week, in New Haven, the oldest U.S. college daily carried the experiment a step further. In its first issue of the new college year, the Yale Daily News (est. 1878) came out in a new dress that combined Vari-Type with photo-offset printing,* the first U.S. daily...
Never before, as far as the oldest Old Oxonian could recall, had the University Congregation been convened during the "Long Vac." But last week, with almost a month of vacation still ahead, the Hebdomadal Council (Oxford's "cabinet") summoned a special session of Congregation (the academic legislature). To the black-gowned, curious dons, Dean John Lowe of Christ Church broke an exciting piece of news...
...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...