Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sargent was a great draughtsman and well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
...Tinker (blood relative of Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster), able and popular Yale professor, interpreter of Boswell, read an address by Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of Newark, N. J., in the latter's enforced absence. Wrote Mayor Raymond: "The task of the Catholic Church today is to create an age of faith through the medium of an order of celibate preachers...
...great skill at passing a football carries with it equal skill at passing the buck, there is no real reason why "the flying iceman" should not make a successful candidate. It is true, one difficulty does present itself. Mr. Grange is not yet twenty-five, which is the minimum age for Representatives. After much deep thinking on the part of his admirers, however, it was agreed that if this objection should be hurled at them, they would retort, "Remember Henry Clay...
...fact that it is not likely to prove an effective agency in removing for a long time to come the bane of war from the recognized institutions of international relations. This weakness goes to the very root of international relations in what I venture to call this socially backward age. No mere addition of machinery can create that necessary will to peace which is the best guaranty of the efficacy of an international court...
Opportunity for going to Saturday football game at reduced rates is age offered the University by Leavitt a Peirce. A special train leaving it South Station at 11.35 o'clock tomorrow morning is scheduled to arrived one hour. The returns trip, also last an hour, will leave Providence at 5 o'clock the same afternoon. All tickets for this trip are on sale at Leave and Peirce...