Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story: "The French had formed a huge Cabinet of concentration. M. Briand was Prime Minister, but the Cabinet contained men of great age. M. Clemenceau, then approaching eighty years, was not included. It was said that when asked the reason for his exclusion, he had replied, Me suis trop jeune' (I am too young...
...learn rightly to Think. Through definite activities, useful in their own right and evidently respectable because they are useful, as well as through the written records of doing and thinking in the past, and talking and listening to talk, and reflection upon these, the student of any age gains that cultivation of all of himself which develops the intelligence which is nothing more or less than all of himself. With that kind of education in college, he will "find himself" during his college course if he has not done so before, instead of wasting some of the best years...
Although many a youth now enters college in search of pleasure and finds it, it is absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting...
Among the subjects to be discussed are the origin of the Earth and its age, "The Stuff that Stars are Made Of," "Life in Other Worlds," "Comets, Eclipses, the Use of Telescopes," and "Beyond the Milky...
December 3--The Age of the Earth. Dr. Shapley...