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Word: aetate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Usage:

...woman with white eyes," to listen unsympathetically to her news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Eyed Woman | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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