Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon. Hugh D. Calkins '45, will direct the alumni procession to the graduation. The alumni, class by class with the oldest first, will march in review before the dignitaries stationed on the steps of Widener...
Drunken Comportment rejects the legend that the North American Indian could not hold his firewater. More typically, he had to be coaxed at first even to sample it. A tribe would cautiously nominate its oldest-and therefore most expendable-member to take the first sip. Daniel Harmon, a 19th century fur trader whose journal is extensively quoted, reported that as often as not, alcohol had a tranquilizing effect on the Indian initiates. "I had rather have 50 drunken Indians in the fort," he wrote, "than five drunken [French] Canadians." Indeed, the wild and murderous debauches attributed to Indians...
...Storms resembled an ordinary piece of granite, but it was, in fact, unlike any earthly specimen-or any of the other lunar material brought back by Apollo 12. It contained 20 times as much radioactive uranium, thorium and potassium as comparable amounts of other moon material and was the oldest lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further examination of the rock will provide new insight...
...keep tabs on that elite tribe), then called to offer him an editing job. Morris took it, and for four years worked quietly in Manhattan. In 1967, at Fischer's urging, Harper's president, John Cowles Jr., made Morris the youngest editor in chief of the oldest literary magazine in the U.S. "Making him editor," says one Harper's staffer, "was Fischer's revenge on the New York Jewish Intellectual Establishment. Little did he know...
...youth of America is their oldest tradition," said Oscar Wilde. "It has been going on now for 300 years." The assumption that the U.S. is a young country has, in fact, been a national premise for hope and the future−an adrenalin charge of optimism no matter what the crisis. Now, suddenly, without even the mixed blessing of a transitional middle age, a question has been raised: Is America's youthful "experiment" all but finished...