Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older universities have the youngest one to reckon with. Besides the largest endowment,* Duke University (Durham, N. C.), has an enviable climate and the true quiet of academe. A combination of these assets has already enabled Duke to take from Harvard that pre-eminent psychologist, Dr. William McDougall. Dr. McDougall said he had been happy at Harvard but could not resist Duke's offer. Many another famed professor is happy where he is, but boards of trustees are watching nervously to see who next will be unable to resist the prospect of Ducal paradise...
Mortimer Leo Schiff is the only "son"?Jacob Henry Schiff's?and he is the youngest (born 1877) of the present four partners. Like President Coolidge, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank Waterman Stearns, Herbert Lee Pratt, Bruce Barton, Alexander Meiklejohn, the late Henry Ward Beecher, Harlan F. Stone, Frederick H. Gillett, Robert Lansing, Charles E. Mitchell, Joseph B. Eastman, Henry C. Hall, Frank J. Goodnow, he is an Amherst man. Unlike them, he was never graduated, because in his sophomore year he decided he did not want to be just a "rich man's son." He left...
...incoming Governor marched beside the outgoing Governess? who did not take his arm. The husband of the outgoing Governess marched directly behind them? with his youngest daughter, the wife of the incoming Governor hav-ing refused to march with...
Governor Moody is five years younger than Governor of Virginia Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Richard E. ("Dicky") Byrd, famed Pole man. Governor Moody is, then, "youngest U. S. Governor." But he is no younger than Sam Houston* was in 1827 when he became Governor of Tennessee...
...Karamazov has begot, among others, three legitimate sons. The fierce appetites of the sire burn in the brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father...