Word: ageâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel, was renewed. The time was ripe for the monstrous birth of the steel age??? Enoch, singlehanded, fought vainly against it ? he broke himself and New Damascus, retarding for a few years the inevitable event. And when Agnes married John, after many vicissitudes, Enoch and Breakspeare were reconciled at last. This unique novel by a famed writer on business and finance is an extraordinarily interesting achievement...
That which should accompany old age???honor?does not fall to those who go by too many aliases, like the steamship Yankton. She was offered at auction in New York; the highest bid was $2,700; the United States Marshall refused the price; and her sale was put over until another...
...nothing to seek for themselves. And they are saved by years of exacerbating contact with youth from the danger of ever becoming old. They are the elder guardians of Plato's Republic deprived of nothing but the authority which they deserve. They are the rarest phenomena of our age???men who have taken time to be wise...