Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vague clamorings are being heard of an art that insists it is the music of the age. It appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...
...held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph was chosen from the widowers of Israel by divine token, to be her guardian. Later, the annunciation took place; when Mary's pregnancy was discovered, she and Joseph were brought before the High Priest protesting their innocence of earthly wrong. They were tried with "the water of the ordeal...
Most mothers overflow with pride when their infant sons begin to toddle across the room from chair to chair at the tender age of ten months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread...
...settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe," is his premise. The colonists were "stripped Europeans": stripped by Protestantism of humanity, by science of faith, by the Age-of-Reason of government. A lack or exaggeration of one of these three-the kingdom, the power, the glory-has characterized all but 30 years of U. S. history. The golden day of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman lasted from...
...wave" or "epidemic" really existed; that student suicides were actually more numerous in 1927 than in 1917 or 1907, and not simply made to seem so by the avidity with which newspapers smelled out the school affiliations, past and present, of every 1927 suicide under 30 years of age, remained undemonstrated. Evidence to support the "wave" theory was visible only in isolated cases. The self-hanging of Bruce Frederick Wilson, Princeton sophomore, closely followed the self-hanging of a Yale sophomore and the self-asphyxiation of a Princeton graduate student. In the wallet of Mclntire Harsha, University of Chicago freshman...