Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after the Washington social season, the President and Mrs. Coolidge will take up residence in a hotel as they...
Railroads. "The steady gain in the volume of railroad traffic, characteristic of recent years, continued in 1925-26. The ton-mile age of freight increased nearly 8% over the preceding year, in which it had already marked a record. The constantly rising efficiency of the railroads is emphasized by the fact that this greater traffic was handled with practically no change in the number of employes...
General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, age 100, height six feet, beloved as "The Father of the Guards," author of Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life (1916), beamed exultantly last week at the news that the Grenadier Guards' minimum height requirement has again been raised to the traditional six feet after being lowered to five feet ten a year ago because six-footers of good fighting calibre were growing scarce...
Iceland, as extensive as Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
...college is in the cast does not deprive it of western ruggedness and an open spaces diamond-in-the-rough charm. The profession of literature must have dulled Mr. Marks discernment. Or perhaps fame has rendered him insensible to the gradations and intricacies of college life. Surely "The Plastic Age" was never like this...