Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test such as the Stanford Binet would be the one which all pupils would be subjected to. The Stanford Binet test varies for different ages. Some of the younger children, for example, are required to put a number of pictures in their proper succession, and do exercises of a like nature...
...Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
...Ambassador (1918-21). Guy Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat in the land. Guy Despard Goff, as it happens, is a Republican, so no real rivalry exists. But if Guy Despard Goff had stayed in Clarksburg, he too might have been a Democrat, perhaps head Democrat...
...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...
When Henry Pomeroy Davison became a Morgan partner he was 42 years old; 30 years younger than the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); three months older than the present John Pierpont Morgan...