Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Ford Sinclair, although younger, stronger, bolder and far richer than Mr. Fall, had an even less pleasant time ahead. For it was upon him and his friends that the fresh suspicion had fastened-suspicion of attempted jury-tampering, the last resort of wealthy felons...
...undergraduate of today must needs rely on his elders for the personal praises and eulogies which are Professor Norton's due. It is to the older men, the men who were so fortunate as to be either his younger colleagues or his students that one must look for an exposition of Charles Eliot Norton, the man. Enough has been said, however, to make clear to the younger generation his general character and aims. On that basis one may well cite a tribute which Mr. Norton once made to another great teacher, a friend of his and a fellow worker...
...said, allegedly without much foundation, that he is a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. With equal lack of foundation Dame Rumor has several times had him engaged to Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of the famed War Prime Minister, with whom Sir Philip is still on the friendliest terms, despite the fact that he is a Conservative and Mr. George a Liberal...
...immediate public for whom Sullivan is narrating the genesis of modern America is a public whose members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...
...Similar work is being carried on by the younger generation in Bulgaria and Lithuania. The methods include obtaining anti-alcohol pledges, spreading the doctrines of prohibition, and getting towns to vote to go dry. To date, 62 Bulgarian villages have voted against alcoholic beverages...