Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratio on capital ships should necessarily be extended to auxiliaries." This first point was in itself a polite negation of U. S. aims at the Parley; but the second point squarely supported the British thesis, thus: "The British proposal for reducing the size of capital ships and extending the age limit undoubtedly has merit, proving that it will contribute in no small measure toward the diminution of naval expenditures...
Similar clauses to fix the "replacement age" of cruisers at 24 years, destroyers 20 years, submarines 15 years...
...First, it should be a message which frankly acknowledges that it is impossible to try one age by the moral standards of another.... Standards are always modified and adapted to what at the moment are regarded as the object most beneficial to the individual or the social organization...
Eight hours later, to Grant's Pass came Flying Cloud of the Karooks to receive $500. And then, while a fellow redskin trotting beside him played old airs on a harmonica, came 55-year-old Melika of the Zuni tribe to receive plaudits befitting a barrel-chested old age...
...other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused on Mr. Orteig's $25,000. It was one instance in which the Dollar was not quite Almighty, of the Golden Age v. the Age of Gold...