Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
...Pius XI. Mrs. Warner's father, in whose presidential chances the Vatican is reported to have no interest, was pleased to hear of his daughter's devoutness and, when urged to comment, gently turned the conversation aside, into travel. "Distance doesn't mean much to the younger generation," said Governor Smith. "Here am I, past fifty, and it was only a few years ago that I traveled as far as Canada...
First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...
Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...
...Thee' and then a ripple of applause would ensue from the spectators seated at the tables in the quadrangle. After a buffet supper, the interdormitory singing contest came. Standish Hall won the first contest and received the handsome silver trophy from President Lowell. After the singing the younger guests danced until 12 o'clock. All this entertainment...