Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medical men. Unquestionably doctors are better qualified than any one else to preach sound health, yet they are willing to leave the job to unorganized public opinion. When they feel a lack of public support, they complain that they have no time to defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall measurably in its success. Physicians may have dignified their business of selling health by calling it a profession, but if they are content to let more vociferous healers monopolize public attention...
...that compromise is possible, compromise which will embrace the good qualities of more than one system. We are not convinced that the "old order must utterly go." Perhaps time and experience, which unmake, as they install and signalize tradition, will presently indicate that it must. But even then "Old age hath yet his honor and his toil," which in decline will be to bear up until the new order grow to take his place
Back to his editorial desk went Samuel Sidney McClure. He had not sat there since 1912, when he turned over the magazine that bears his name to Publisher Frederick L. Collins. The 13 years that had passed had been years of trouble for McClure's, aching years of middle age, of famine amidst plenty, of dieting and forced feeding at the hands of three rejuvenators in turn. Now the master was back, the earnest, wrinkled man with solicitude in his heart and a healing touch in his fingertips. The issue that the master planned and that appeared last week...
...Spectator. She told of her early edu cation, how she was taught to read when 3, how "the multiplication table and French verbs were repeated whilst holding a backboard* and with our feet in the stocks,* which were made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin...
...Bygone Age...