Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious result of this insufficient wage is to recruit the aid of all members of the family of working age in the support of the family. Fifty percent of the workers in the mills are women...
...sixth and last of the series of Shaler Memorial Lectures on "The Quaternary Ice Age," will be given tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room by Dr. Ernst Antevs...
Then there is another, no less evident class who vouchsafe not a look to the present. For them there is no literature but that which has been written. The whole past is a golden age never to return. An author is regarded askance if he wrote with anything more modern than a goose-quill pen; literary modernity is literary heresy...
...student is ten years old when he enters the Gymnasium, and is at least 19 before he completes the course. These nine years of school work are divided into three periods of three years each in order that instruction may be given in accord dance with the student's age. The first, which includes those children from the age of 10 to 13, is the period of Naive Experience. Next, from the age of 13 to 16, is the period of Concrete Understanding, and finally, there is the period of Abstract Logical Penetration which is reached when the student arrives...
...last year, only 41 percent of the students completed the nine-year course while in the Gymnasiums in nine years, while 30 percent were required to double one year, 17 percent to double two years, and 12 percent were forced to double three or more years. The average age of the boys leaving the Gymnasiums is about 20 or 21. It is evident, therefore, that the courses must be very difficult...