Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tilden, on hearing of this remark, defended himself: "I knew someone would fall for that. If I refer to Hunter as the junior member of our team, it is because he is a few months younger than I and not because I am ranking myself above...
These four volumes were enlarged in 1838 and in 1841 the publishers felt they must issue a still more advanced reader. But Dr. McGuffey had left Cincinnati. So they engaged his smart brother, Alexander H. McGuffey, 16 years younger, a lawyer and Hebrew scholar. He it was who contributed the Rhetorical Guide which, later called McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black...
...even speak to the Freshmen, and as for looking at them, that was unheard of. Why, I remember when the Freshmen even stepped off the narrow side-walks in order to let Seniors pass. Do you think they would do that now? If so, you don't know the younger generation. I shall never forget how the poor Freshmen used to be treated down at Red Top (you know I have been steward down there ever since I have been connected with the Varsity Club). The players on the team would have nothing to do with the Freshmen even when...
...farm near Forli, in the foothills of the Apennines. The iron features of Il Duce seemed those of a stern husbandman as he guided his old-fashioned plow drawn by two white oxen past purring cinema cameras; but to relieve and humanize the drama little Bruno, his younger son, straddled one of the oxen. Not until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details of germination. . . . Despatches from Forli told that the sprouting shoots of Signer Mussolini "have already done so well that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although...
...scholars who have looked at history as something more than treaties and battles have been in a minority in this country, but they have not been totally absent. The work of Professor Turner, of J. R. Smith, of Professor Breasted and of a host of younger writers among whom Professor Schlesinger is an eminent figure, forms the only proper background for the amazing synthesis of American civilization which the Beards have produced...