Word: centenarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centenarian, who arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1863, is in good health except for a slight deafness and eyesight that is a bit dimmer than...
...institution-cluttered Boston, the hundredth birthday of almost anyone or anything is back-page stuff. But last week a freshly turned centenarian made the headlines-though it had to print them itself. Having hit the century mark, Boston's morning Herald told the world (or at least the hub of it) all about...
...world's greatest, richest publishing houses, Macmillan & Co. commissioned Macmillan Author Charles Morgan (The Fountain) to write a history of its first 100 years. Recently published in England (U.S. publication this spring), The House of Macmillan is an entertaining story of the book world's liveliest centenarian...
...close of each year U.S. publishers, politest of businessmen, review the successes of competing firms with the outward suavity and smoldering wrath of tigers in a jungle. Usually the triumphs of lively newcomers are most dreaded. But this year the talk and envy of the trade is a centenarian-Boston's house of Little, Brown...