Word: younger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first hand touch that is lacking to the general historian, but his comprehension of the greater movements in which he took part is generally slim. And so it seems here that Mr. Morris' interpretation of Whitman is of an elementary nature not to be ranked along side that of younger critics who have been close to their subject only in spirit...
...hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near the end. But I am thinking of the men 20 years younger than myself [he is 70]. . . . Who would not have laughed at a man that 20 years ago had attempted to picture to the world the terrible orgy of slaughter of 1914-18? . . . It may not even come from without-who knows? I can remember . . . that I sat with my father...
Louis' one passion (outside of his job) was hunting. He liked women, but loved dogs. He had mistresses in his younger days, and was twice married, purely as a matter of business. Suspicious, he had an elaborate system of spies. Relentless, he hung traitors or put them in iron cages. Personally brave, he was terribly afraid of death...
...last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME, Oct. 21). Hog stomachs are being tested. Neither of these affected Professor Gordon's cases. An ingenious ratiocinator, he figured that the younger liver was, the greater might be its power of stimulating blood formation. His persuasiveness induced the Government's meat inspectors to release him sufficient fetal livers for his purpose. The remedy apparently has proved successful. Dr. Gordon's success gained the Department of Agriculture's cachet last...
...only rejoice at its reappearance. It is by all odds one of the most successful of the Westerns with Gary Cooper capturing the spirit of Owen Wister's hero to perfection. Mary Brian is attractive if a trifle too sophisticated for a Vermont schoolteacher out to educate the younger generation in Wyoming. Needless to say Gary gets both his man and his girl and manages to make the whole story convincing...