Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Bierwirth, who is 63 years of age, suffers from a fractured hip, and will be confined in the hospital for from two to three months. His condition is not serious...
...Sturdy Secretary of Labor James J. Davis is proud of Pennsylvania. Born in South Wales, he moved to the little town of Sharon, Pa., finished his schooling at the age of eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state...
...keenest and busiest mind in the Supreme Court. "Work keeps me young," said Justice Holmes. "If I should quit, I would die." It has been wisely said that Plato dreamed of such men as this when he chose scholars and philosophers, tried by the world and by age, to govern his ideal Republic...
...legitimate interest in the subject has been left out--a comparison of derelictions in student life compared with those outside. It is plainer than ever before that this publication is using the colleges as fair game for creating an illusion of gilded sin, just as magazines of an earlier age created the myths of "high society...
...display also is a copy of Gray's "Odes" that was owned by Lord Byron when he was 16 years of age. In this is Byron's signature written in his longhand...