Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his grandmother on the Kaw reservation. There he frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them, but his family said: "No, Charles, you must go to school...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...
Then too, he is an unparalleled idealist in an age when idealism is regarded as useless if not made. In a college where this quality is considered fit only for Y-men and aesthetes, it has been immensely salutary to find it also the life of a great teacher...
...age of 30, Lee had achieved a considerable reputation not alone for his writing but for his activities in the dissolute society of the Earl of Rochester. As the grew more disreputable, his patron age, gradually disappeared, and a year later, his mind was completely unhinged. Five years were spent in Bethlehem Hospital where he to some extent recovered but not very long after leaving the Hospital he died in a drunken...
...born in 1834, attended private elementary school in Boston, and at ten years of age entered the Boston Public Latin School. At fifteen he went to Harvard College. In addition to the narrow classical program which he pursued in common with all boys of the Latin School, he had lessons in carpentry and wood turning which his father, whose ideas about education were as President Eliot says, "much in advance of his times," was at pains to secure for him. Although Josiah Quincy had introduced into Harvard College a certain measure of election, this had largely disappeared under the Presidency...