Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filene's suggestion seemed to forecast an event already made inevitable by the disappearance of the immigrant trade. It has the grand simplicity of the big business man, is characteristic of an age wherein ten dollars are made from the masses to every cartwheel wrung from...
...Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position which he held for eight years...
...problem of an age of industrialism is not: "How much can we produce?" but: "How much can the public consume?" Wherefore the vast, highly organized, temperamental estate called "the molders of favorable public opinion," or, more prosaically, Advertising Men. Last year, when the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World fore-gathered in London, voted Houston, Tex., as their next meeting place, U. S. enthusiasm knew no bounds. It was so infectious that the staid London Times was moved, even ten months later (in March), to elaborate a special supplement in celebration of Texas-her history, her heroes, her landmarks...
...scholarship earlier this year, was named the winner of two Bowdoin prizes for his translations into Attic Greek and into Latin. Walter Thomas Pattison '25 of Wilmette, Ill., was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature for his essay dealing with the Spanish writing of the Golden Age. A Frederick Sheldon Fellowship in Anthropology was awarded to Carleton Stevens Coon of Wakefield...
These scholarships, open to unmarried American citizens between 19 and 21 years of age who have completed at least two years of college, are tenable for three years and carry an annual stipend of 350 pounds sterling. Candidates may apply in the state where they reside or where they have received at least two years of their college education. The Rhodes scholars are appointed without examination on the basis of their record is school and college, and there is no restriction on their choice of studies. Elections in 1925 will be from 32 states...