Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...consistency of the law school in remaining antagonistic to the prohibition law without its own interest, for these are men of more than undergraduate age and experience, endowed with a training in the theory of law which would make them at variance with inadequate and superficial policy...
...spite of his warnings against further appropriations, the President after consideration finally signed the bill increasing pensions of disabled Spanish War veterans from $20 to $50, graduated according to age. He said the Spanish veterans were certainly entitled to that, considering what other veterans are getting, but that it would increase the expected deficit for 1926-27 from $21,000,000 to $40,000,000. He issued an ominous message announcing his approval of the bill...
...Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden Age. The digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally opened the Gennadium, a new marble library built...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe...