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Word: younger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older brother is no longer in school. His younger brother is in "Hillhouse High School." His father is employed at the "Winchester" Company, not "Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. Sir Robert Balfour, 85, shipbuilder (Balfour, Williamson & Co); in London. Because his heir died in 1923 and his younger son was killed in the War, the baronetcy is now extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...They say the King looks younger!"- breathlessly loyal Britons passed the word. Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Says one dentist to another, if you are not a member, the charge of admission is one dollar. How can you expect the younger members to know anything, when the older ones act as exclusive as they do. Let the non-members and the independents get together and put up a man whose motto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Things Done. In 1925 Daniel Guggenheim gave New York University $500,000 to create a school of aeronautics. Then he gave $2,500,000 to start the Fund, making his son president. Anyone with an intelligent idea about flying has had opportunity to put his thought before the younger Guggenheim. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leland Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington received between them almost $1,200,000 for schools of aeronautics. The Fund helped publicize the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd flights to Europe, gave U. S. aviation the impetus it needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Guggenheim Wind-up | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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