Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power of the House of Lords. As a result the Cabinet met in secret session, to consider how the proposal-after having existed only a week-might best be scrapped...
...book by Authors Eames and Marshall appears actually to have been written by them. Miss Eames is a tall, determined younger sister of Actress Clare Eames and writes for the New Yorker...
Tuition. The most significant statement of the season was that of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He and his father have given more than a half billion dollars to general education, disease prevention and like social factors. They make no stint of their giving. Yet the younger John D. Rockefeller, at the 153rd commencement exercises of Brown University, his alma mater, last week forced himself to declare that the time is close when wealthy men will find themselves unable to keep up with the demands of education institutions for gifts...
...working principle it is as reasonably sure of success as a long-term system. Assistant deans may not become estranged from the view point of the undergraduate in three or five years. Many of them grow, perhaps, in understanding of the student, but the appointment of younger graduates obviates any possibility of the Faculty dominating undergraduates in the connecting link between...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...