Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty is the perilous age for a workingman. After that he is the first to suffer in a layoff, the last to regain employment. Employers are exhibiting an increasing preference for younger men, at the expense of their elders...
Labor suspects that it knows what causes underlie the discrimination against 40-year-oldsters. Older men are discharged and younger men hired, thinks Labor, to keep down the average employe age upon which group insurance premiums are reckoned and paid. Unmarried men are in greater demand than family men because of the lower payments to be made under workmen's compensation laws...
...younger brother, who rushed into the House of Commons fray last week, is Lord Hugh Cecil...
Recently the editorial page of the University of Oregon Emerald revived a controversy which is being increasingly discussed by younger generations; namely, the "dutch treat date". After citing the cases of several collegiate dances, to which all the guests had been pledged to attend as "stags", and which had invariably turned out to be dismal failures, the editors of the Emerald proceed to declare their opposition to the idea. In thus recording their disfavor of the "dutch treat date" they were probably expressing the opinion of the majority of present day college students...
...have worked hard for more than five years and I am tired. I can still carry the burden another two years, but no longer. I feel that there should be a younger government and younger leaders, and I shall be happy to turn my responsibilities over to them...