Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swear allegiance came the three Regents of Rumania, who will rule until King Michael is of age (1939). Observers necessarily recalled that the Regency Act (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) was forced through Parliament by Dictator Bratiano with no other purpose than to secure as regents three puppets. First is Prince Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd...
Scores of U. S. citizens under 30 years of age submit, each year, their best work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
...McVey of the University of Kentucky both harped on the increasing necessity for stricter, more selective admissions policies. To this phase of the subject the Chicago Tribune made a characteristic contribution: ". . . It may be that the education processes will have to catch the student at a much younger age to give him the whole works...
Prize fighting is popular because, watching it, civilized people are vicariously purged of their primitive inclinations. Another need that it satisfies becomes evident, not only in the prefight betting, but in the event the outcome is disputable. Onlookers can then enter actual combat, with their opinions. In the Stone Age, a fight was simply a fight, with no nonphysical exchanges before or after. Today a fight stimulates the popular art of debate. Psychologically speaking, the meeting of the country's two second-best physical fighters last week in the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, was one of the most successful affairs...
...give three performances of Siegfried in one week; after the third the theatre would be pulled down and my score burned. To those who were pleased with it, I would say: 'There, go and do likewise.' " Such was the sublime abnegation of Richard Wagner, who, at the age of 60, was pleased to stand on his head in the presence of a visitor and boast "that is more than...