Word: oldest
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...competition, one of the oldest in the College, will consist of a preliminary heat in the middle of March. The final round will take place at the end of the month at which the remaining contestants will deliver their orations at a public program at the Music Building...
Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...future," as one hopeful editor proclaimed. Some readers complained that the typed words and hand-lettered headlines were hard to read. But the papers were good enough to give the I.T.U. some worries about the future of its closed-shop policy - and featherbedding practices. The I.T.U., one of the oldest U.S. unions, had for most of its 95 years fought the adoption of any labor-saving processes which might throw printers out of work...
...Manhattan, after extensive conferences among top stars, sponsors, advertising agency and network executives, the National Broadcasting Co. revised one of its oldest traditions. From now on, the word "diaper" may be used on NBC air-in a dry way, that...
Under the watchful eyes of steel-helmeted police, the world's oldest university began its 1,006th academic year in Cairo last week. The cops were just a precaution in a land hot over the Palestine question: the 11,000 students at Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University take their politics as seriously as their Moslem faith. It is not just boyish prankishness either; some of the "undergrads" have been going to school for 15 or 20 years...