Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with his fellow newspaper owning peer, Lord Rothermere, the younger brother of the late Lord Northcliffe...
...United States Steel corporation in danger of being outclassed by other corporations headed by younger men? Isn't it possible that the directing heads of the United States Steel corporation are too old in view of the staid and stolid policies of the management? I mean this of course in the kindest...
...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...Percy A. Rockefeller was the first important one. He is now middle-aged (48), very tall, indeed taller than his deceased father, William, his cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...
...Dodgers" (Brooklyn) play the " Giants" (New York) ; the " Braves" (Boston) play the " Phillies" (Philadelphia) ; the " Pirates" (Pittsburgh) play the " Cardinals" (St. Louis); the " Cubs" (Chicago) play the " Those, as even the younger generation knows, are the National Leaguers. In the American League, the " Yankees" (New York) met the " Red Sox" (Boston); the " Athletics" (Philadelphia) met the " Senators" (Washington) ; the " Indians" (Cleveland) met the " Tygers" (Detroit); and the " Browns" (St. Louis) met the White Sox" (Chicago...