Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aging Episcopal bishops were spotlighted last week when one of them voluntarily announced his retirement, declaring that his diocese needed a younger leader, and citing a new church law (due to take effect in 1943) requiring retirement at 72. The prelate: courtly, go-getting Dr. Ernest Milmore Stires, still hale & hearty at 74. His diocese: Long Island, whose 92,000 members make it the fourth largest (after New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts...
...Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily, and the younger daughter makes bad use of a roadhouse, is killed in an auto wreck. But the focus...
...same meeting in Atlantic City last fortnight where preliminary plans were made for the merger, Dean Weigle was elected to the job. Looking younger than his 60 years, alert, square-set Dean Weigle, a longtime leader of the Federal Council, the International Council of Religious Education and a dozen similar organizations, is persuasive rather than oratorical...
After the first World War, says Liddell Hart, the best younger brains of the Army saw that machines would dominate future wars. But tenaciously conservative elder officers held to antique ways of foot and horse. In 1934 Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd declared: "It is certain that if we do not go slowly with mechanization we shall land ourselves in difficulties...
...Last week B. & O. boss, 79-year-old Uncle Dan Willard asked his directors for the tenth year in a row to be replaced by a younger man. They told him that he was their "indispensable man," drafted him for his 32nd term...