Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made by the blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...
...advent of frankness and the departure of chivalry, both characteristics, generally speaking, of the present age, are the targets for Miss Cabot's shafts. The cause of our lost manners, our disrespect for women, has been discussed before, and though it has in most cases been done in a sensational, non-scientific manner, the subject is perhaps of more significance than such Elinor Glyn articles would lead one to believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death...
This city of Cambridge is full of memories of an age when culture was more esteemed than dollars...
...courses which the student is following. The peril to the student is that he may regard this free time till the examination comes as a period of relief from work or may dawdle the greater part of it and then "cram". But most of the students are at an age when they should be ready to take responsibility with its attendant risks...
...having that which even approaches an unbiased opinion will deny that particularly in this age and day, science embracing what may be called the exact fields of knowledge--possess an interest and must be a part of everyone's cultural development--that development if it is to become complete. Yet the sciences of a necessity from their innate nature place difficulties in the way of their inclusion in a column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures...